声明
摘要
Abstract
Contents
Introduction
1.Introduction to the playwright and his family trilogy
2.Literature review
3.A history of urbanization and a review of narrative progression
4.Layout of the thesis
Chapter One Imagined Paradises:Cities vs Suburbs
1.1 Cities:the imagined paradises for the poor in suburbs
1.2 Suburbs:the imagined paradises for the rich in cities
1.3 The backdrop of family trilogy
Chapter Two Alienated in “Utopia”
2.1 Alienated in family
2.1.1 The tense husband-wife relationship
2.1.2 The abnormal parent-child relationship
2.2 Alienated in cities and suburbs
2.2.1 Alienated in cities
2.2.2 Alienated in suburbs
Chapter Three Victimized in the Urbanization
3.1 The damage of nuclear family
3.2 The great gap of wealth
3.3 The degeneration of morality
Chapter Four Narrating of Losers
4.2 Unreliable narration in Buried Child
4.3 Incomplete narrative progression in True West
Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgments