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汕头大学硕士研究生论文 Determinism in An Amer ican Tragedy Acknowledgements In the course of this study, there are many people who gave me so much help in various ways that I will always cherish but I will never be able to repay. First, I owe my greatest debt of gratitude to Associate Professor Muriel Walker. I wish to thank her for her confidence in my ability, her constructive suggestions for my studies, her constant and warm encouragement, and her meticulous correction of the mistakes in my writing. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Associate Professor Chen Huayu, who has been spurring me on and encouraging me to go through the hardest time of my life when I was in great trouble caused by my own carelessness. I cannot thank her enough for squeezing time out of her extremely busy routine to polish my draft, and raise questions about the way I presented various points in the present study so that I had opportunities to rectify what might have been misleading and otherwise ambiguous. I am deeply indebted to Professor Zhu Wang for her courses in western thoughts and modern literature study. I am so grateful to her for her selflessness and her strictness with my research writing. I should also like to express my sincere thanks to Professor Li Jie, Professor Li Renzhi, Associate Professor Xiong Jincai, and Associate Professor Felix for their various lectures and the instructions they gave me, which solidified my capacity for research during my studies in Shantou University. Last but not least, I would like to express my sincere thanks to my family and my friends, whose love, patience and understanding sustained my through all these years of great difficulty. With all the help and s