Part One Topic 1
Chapter1 The Law of Life by Jack London 2
Chapter2 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost 9
Chapter3 The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes 12
Chapter4 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner 15
Chapter5 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck （Excerpts） 25
Part Two Environment 63
Chapter1 A Cask of Amontillado by Adgar Allan Poe 64
Chapter2 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane（Excerpts） 72
Chapter3 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser （Excerpts） 92
Chapter4 In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway 112
Part Three Character 118
Chapter1 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne（Excerpts） 119
Chapter2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain（Excerpts） 146
Chapter3 Billy Budd by Herman Melville（Excerpts） 166
Chapter4 A Father－To－Be by Saul Bellow 177
Chapter5 A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor 188
Part Four Theme 203
Chapter1 The Great Gatsby by Francis Fitzgerald（An Excerpt） 204
Chapter2 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller（An Excerpt） 219
Chapter3 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison （An Excerpt） 239
Chapter4 Everyday Use by Alice Walker 245
Chapter5 The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien（An Excerpt） 254
Part Five Figure of Speech 267
Chapter1 To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant 268
Chapter2 Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving 272
Chapter3 The American Scholar by Ralph W.Emerson（An Excerpt） 286
Chapter4 I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman 294
Chapter5 Riprap by Gary Snyder 297
参考文献 301
后记 302