摘要: This thesis is about Joseph Heller and his more convincing second novel,Something Happened.The thesis consists of three chapters.Chapter One is about the lifetime of Joseph Heller,which mainly dealy with Heller's family background... 展开 This thesis is about Joseph Heller and his more convincing second novel,Something Happened.The thesis consists of three chapters.Chapter One is about the lifetime of Joseph Heller,which mainly dealy with Heller's family background and his achievement in literature.In this chapter,Section One is an overall analysis on his literary career.Section Two is about Heller's artistic eatures and the last section is about the main plot and the general comment on Something Happened.Chapter Two presents the criticism on the theme of Something Happened,consisting of two sections:an absurd world under a Catch-22,and the Existentialist problems in Slocum,the main character.Chapter Three depicts the techniques of the novel,including four sections:the first section is Slocum's compulsion to repeat,the second section is about Slocum's symbolic sons,the third section explains the Black Humor and its use in Something Happened,and last section is a comparison between the monologue in Something Happened and the Sound and the Fury. 收起