Part One Topics / 1 Chapter 1 The Law of Life by Jack London / 2 Chapter 2 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost / 11 Chapter 3 The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes / 14 Chapter 4 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner / 18 Part Two Environment / 30 Chapter 1 In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway / 31 Chapter 2 A Cask of Amontillado by Adgar Allan Poe / 39 Chapter 3 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (excerpts) / 49 Chapter 4 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (excerpts) / 74 Part Three Characters / 100 Chapter 1 Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville ( excerpts ) / 101 Chapter 2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (excerpts) / 116 Chapter 3 A Father-To-Be by Saul Bellow / 142 Chapter 4 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (excerpts) / 156 Part Four Themes / 192 Chapter 1 The Great Gatsby by Francis Fitzgerald (an excerpt) / 193 Chapter 2 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (an excerpt) / 212 Chapter 3 Everyday Use by Alice Walker / 219 Chapter 4 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller ( an excerpt) / 231 Chapter 5 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (an excerpt) / 256 Part Five Rhetorics / 273 Chapter 1 To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant / 274 Chapter 2 Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving / 278 Chapter 3 The American Scholar by Ralph W. Emerson (an excerpt) / 296 Chapter 4 I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman / 307 参考文献 后记