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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
This chapter contains the discussion of two problems in this study. The first part of this chapter discusses the personality description of Olga as portrayed
in this novel. The second part discusses Olga’s personality development and the
factors which affect it.
A. Olga’s Personality Description
Olga has unique traits. As Allport in Hurlock 1974 says , “Every
individual is unique and never- repeated phenomenon” p. 8. There is no one can
resemble her p ersonality. Olga’s personality description is analyzed by using
Murphy’s 1974 characterization theory. Those characterization ways are through another character’s opinion, Olga’s speech, Olga’s past life, Olga’s
reaction, direct comment from the author, and Olga’s thought. In this study, the
most frequent ways used to reveal Olga’s characters are by reading Olga’s thought and learning her past life.
Thereafter, Olga is the main character which is analyzed in this study. Olga is included as a round character. According to Kennedy and Gioia 1999
“Round characters, however, present us with more facets ─ that is, their authors portray them in greater depth and in more generous detail” p. 61. In the novel,
Olga is a round character since the author represents her with many aspects and details. Besides, according to Kennedy and Gioia 1999, “Round characters
25 often change ─ learn or become enlightened, grow or deteriorate” p. 61. Here,
Olga experiences change in her personality.
1. Olga’s Physical and Social Description
Olga is an old woman. She is about eighty years old. This fact can be found from Olga’s thought. Murphy 1974 says, ”The author can give us direct
knowledge of what a person is thin king about” p. 171. In this case, the author
reveals what Olga thinks through her words for her granddaughter in the letter. Olga tells her granddaughter about her thought:
I just couldn’t find enough energy to stand up to you. If you ever get to be eighty years old, you’ll understand that at that age you feel like a leaf at
the end of September. There’s less daylight, and little by little the tree’s drawing back into itself everything that can nourish it p. 22.
Olga feels that she is old enough to face her granddaughter’s behavior. She lacks
energy to deal with her granddaughter who comes up from different era. As her granddaughter grows older, she feels that their differences become stronger and
those distinctions irritate each other. Also, her childhood story is a clue which shows that Olga is about 80
years old. She tells her granddaughter, “When I read that book as a little girl, I did some complicated arithmetic to figure out whether I’d get a glimpse of the year
2000. Ninety seemed a pretty ad vanced age to me, but not impossible to reach”
p. 192. The book tells about millennium era in 2000. At that time, Olga counts her age if she still lives in 2000. She says that she will be 90 years old in 2000. It
means that Olga is born in 1910. On the other hand, 1992 is the time when she writes her letter. It is supported by the first subtitle in the novel, “Opicina,
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