Contents
摘要
Abstract
Introduction
0.1 A Brief Introduction to Tennessee Williams and The Glass Menagerie
0.2 Literature Review
0.3 Thesis Statement
Chapter One Theoretical Foundation
1.1 Karen Horney and the Development of Her Ideologies
1.2 Main Points of Karen Horney’s Theory of Neurosis
1.2.1 The Deftnition of Neurosis
1.2.2 Basic Hostility and Basic Anxiety
1.2.3 Three Broad Neurotic Trends
1.2.4 Culture and Neurosis
Chapter Two Representations of Tom’s Neurotic Personality
2.1.1 Accepting to Take His Father’s Place as the Breadwinner
2.1.2 Promising to“Ask a Nice Young Man out for His Sister’’
2.2 Tom’s Aggression Against People
2.2.1 Rebellion Against His Mother’s “Tyranny of ‘Should”’
2.2.2 Resentment of Taking Responsibility for His Sister’s Marriage
2.3 Tom’s Detachment away from People
2.3.1 Escaping into the Literary Worid
2.3.2 Finding Solace in Cinema
2.3.3 Envisioning a Future with Sea Adventure
Chapter Three Causes of Tom’s Neurotic Personality
3.1 Family Environment
3.1.1 Distortion of Maternal Love
3.1.2 Absence of Paternal Love
3.1.3 Commitment to His Beloved Sister
3.2 Social Cultural Environment
3.2.1 Decline of the 0ld South
3.2.2 Domination of the Patriarchal Society
Chapter Four Road to Tom’s Self-redemption and Its Consequeuces
4.1 Tom’S Self-redemption
4.2 Consequences of Tom’s Self-redemption
4.2.1 Fear of Losing Equilibrium
4.2.2 Hopelessness to the Future
Conclusion
Bibliography
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声明
Acknowledgments