Acknowledgements3-4
中文摘要4-5
Abstract5-7
Introduction7-12
Chapter 1 Where There is Life, There is Death12-18
1.1 Inevitabipty:A Universal Truth about Death12-13
1.2 The Length of Life and the Significance of Life13-14
1.3 Attitudes towards Life and Death14-18
1.3.1 The Instinet to Survive14-15
1.3.2 The Fear of Death15-16
1.3.3 Suicide16
1.3.4 Cherishing Life16-18
Chapter 2 Hemingway's View of Life and Death18-28
2.1 Code Heroes:Heroic Struggle against Unchangeable Fate19-21
2.2 Grace under Pressure: the Standard of Code Heroes21-23
2.3 Hemingway and His Suicide23-25
2.4 The Significance of Hemingway's View of Life and Death25-28
Chapter 3 Hemingway and His Death in the Afternoon28-36
3.1 Hemingway and Bullfighting28-30
3.2 Hemingway's Consciousness of Death and the Creation of Death in the Afternoon30-33
3.3 The Literary Value of Death in the Afternoon33-36
Chapter 4 Bullfighting as a Tragedy:Life and Death in Death in the Afternoon36-43
4.1 The Tragedy of the Bullfighters: the Bell Tolls for Them37-41
4.1.1 Bullfighters' Life and Career: Code Heroes under Death Threat37-40
4.1.2 Bullfighters' Courage and Fear: Completing the Art of Death with Dignity and Grace40-41
4.2 The Tragedy of the Bulls: Being Bulped and Killed41-43
Condusion43-45
Works Cited45-48