personality disorder. The writer analyzes about Rebecca’s social life in two points. They are her life style and the social cultures where she lives.
D. Definition Terms
In order to avoid misunderstanding, the terms that are related to the topic are going to be explained. There are two terms that are used in this study.
The first term is the social surroundings. According to Klarer, “the term ‘setting’ denotes the location, historical period, and social surroundings in which
action of a text develops.” 1999: 25. In a word, the social surroundings in this study is related to the location and the social life in the novel. It is followed by
some factors such as the family, society, and relationship. The second term is the compulsive buying disorder. “The compulsive
buying disorder is characterized by excessive shopping cognition and buying behavior that leads to distress or impairment.” Black: 2007:1. The compulsive
buying disorder is one of the disorder that happen because of some reasons. This study focuses on the social surroundings as the reason of the disorder.
The third term is the definition of social surroundings based psychology. In order to see the bridge between literature and pschology, the definition of social
surrounding based on psychology is needed. The Social and Environmental Psychology theme comprises two
collaborative groupings conducting basic and applied research addressing issues such as behaviour change, collective action, attitudes, values,
motives, lifestyles, judgments of risk, conflict and prejudice. www. psych.cf.ac.uk.
Based on pyschology, the term of “social surrounding” is known as social environment. It is related to the several points that lead to the bahavioral change.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE
A. Review of Related Studies
The novel of Confession of a Shopaholic is written by an English novelist in 2009, Sophie Kinsella. According to the New York Times Version Kinsella
becomes the bestselling author. She has written many interesting chick-lit novels. Most of her novels become the bestseller. In the shopaholic’s series, Kinsella has
written about seven books. The earliest, Confession of a Shopaholic has a good story that makes the reader wants to read the next book of the shopaholic series. In
the shopaholic series, Rebecca Bloomwood is the main character. In this novel Rebecca successfully attracts the readers with her story because of her behavior as
a shopaholic. Having behavior as a shopping addict makes Rebecca have Compulsive Buying Disorder CBD.
The Teknosastik Journal 2014 by Mulia Hetti and Yuseano Kardiansyah is a study about Oniomania as seen in Kinsella’s Confessions of a Shopaholic Novel.
The journal discusses the main character as an oniomania sufferer. By using data gathering and library research, the study is about the cause of the Becca’s
oniomania. This journal states that the reasons behind it are the consumerism and the childhood experience. The researchers explain further about the Becca’s
oniomania in her personality. It is explained that being an oniomania sufferer is indicated by her senseless of shopping and her euphoria of shopping in order to
release her desire. This journal also states that oniomania is called compulsive buying disorder.
With this analysis, the researchers explains in depth about the oniomania sufferer inside the novel The Confession of a Shopaholic. It explained that
Rebecca as oniomania sufferer is indicated by her senseless and Rebecca euphoria in shopping. Rebecca always spends money to buy things which
are not being her need, she was also getting pleasure after doing the shopping. Those become the main focus of the writer in this analysis Hetti
and Kardiansyah, 2014: 14. The journal analyses Rebecca’s oniomania in term of shopaholic. Some
indications are made to understand further about the oniomania inside Rebecca’s personality. Hetti and Kardiansyah said that Rebecca as an oniomania sufferer has
senseless of shopping. Wididianingrum Nandini 2006 in her Undergraduate Thesis “Criticism to
Consumeristic Society in Don Delilo’s Cosmopolis and Sophie Kinsella’s Confession of a Shopaholic” proves that Rebecca Bloomwood is one of the
representations of over-consumptive character. In the other words, Rebecca is the representation of cosmopolitan London woman. As the cosmopolitan London
woman, Nandini finds out that one of Rebecca’s characteristics is consumptives. Nandini uses comparative study for analyzing consumptive behavior. She
compares the consumptive behavior in two novels as an effect of Second World War.
Consumerism in Cosmopolis and Kinsella’s novel is quite similar. Nandini describes the consumerism from some aspects such as appearance, personality,
friends, and their responsibility towards money. Besides, in the contexts of consumerism, this thesis also studies about the respective societies and the
culture. According to Nandini’s thesis, consumeristic society becomes the main point to analyze the characters of both novel. Nandini also studies that the
consumeristic society that is described in the novel must be similar to the writer’s society. This thesis states that 2006: 25 “Rebecca Blomwood, the major
character, is mostly depicted to show consumerism has affect her.” Consumeristic problem is an impact from the society. It becomes the reason why Nandini’s thesis
concerns to analyze about how such phenomenal issue as consumerism has influenced the society as seen in both novel.
The similar study is done by Agustina Herni Lestari 2011. In her thesis, “The Influence of Motivation toward Rebecca’s Shopping Disorder as seen in
Sophie Kinsella’s Confession of a Shopaholic”, Rebecca is described as a shopping addict. It is more or less similar to Nandini’s thesis. The term of
consumerism is also used in her study because of the Rebecca’s behavior as a shopaholic. Lestari tends to discuss to the emotion and motivation of the
neighborhood toward Rebecca’s shopping disorder. Motivation in this study is described as the surrounding environment that influences the Rebecca’s shopping
disorder. Rebecca is a shopaholic who always tries hard to get all the stuff she wants
whatever the way. She uses her instinct as a shopaholic. It is like mother who understand the crying of her baby. The mother uses her instinct to
know wat her baby needs, whether the baby needs some milk, feel hunger, or needs a friend. Rebecca always uses her instinct when she shop Lestari,
2011: 48. In the Lestari’s thesis, Rebecca is described as a person who likes to do
shopping and it is motivated by her environment. When she shops, Rebecca looks
