equally attractive alternatives. The opposite of this is avoidance-avoidance conflict, in which the alternatives are equally unattractive. It means we are damned if choose
one and doomed if we do not. And the last is double-approach-avoidance. The conflict involves such choices of good and evil on both sides Warga 112.
1. Sybil’s Interpersonal Conflicts
The interpersonal conflict is considered as person-to person conflict. It means that the incompatible goals, perception, and resources between the persons may
cause the conflict. In this novel, the interpersonal conflicts occur in Sybil’s relationship with her parents and people in Willow Corner. The conflict between
Sybil and them are aroused by their incompatible perception.
a. The Conflict between Sybil and Her Mother
The relation between Sybil and Hattie is not good. As a mother, Hattie always does some tortures to her during Sybil’s childhood. Here, it is clearly shown that
actually there are some fights that have happened. It can be in the way Sybil refuses what her mother asks or the way Sybil thinks differently from her mother.
Sybil’s mother approached the wagons after the farmers had left them and helped herself to peas and corn, which she put in her apron. Other people did
this, too, but Sybil was embarrassed because her father had said that it was stealing…Even though her mother explained that items stolen never would be
missed because the owners had more than they needed, or that on the loading platforms were out in the sun and would spoil anyway, Sybil felt it was
wrong to steal….Let’s get some, ‘Hattie suggested conspiratorially as Sybil walked with her toward the Bishop’s rhubarb stalks. Hattie bent over the
stalks, but Sybil hung back. ‘You’d be the first to eat the rhubarb pie,’ Schreiber 190-191
The quotation above reveals Sybil’s consideration that what Hattie does is wrong. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Hattie wants Sybil to steal the corn and peas. However, Sybil refuses what Hattie wants, for the consideration that stealing is wrong. Hattie also makes Sybil
embarrassed by talking loudly at the church functions, which embarrasses her by watching her mother’s voyeuristic, get some satisfying by seeing other’s sexual
activities and to shit on the people’s house yard she hates Schreiber 191-193. Sybil at the age of three, four and five has to follow her mother walking out
the house and walking apprehensively through the town Schreiber 192. It means that Sybil finds that accommodation is the safest way to solve the conflict, since by
accommodation she finally surrenders on what her mother wants and accommodate her wants. She feels that there is no best way to unravel the problems, because she is
afraid of her mother’s threat and what her mother will do toward her if she does some fights.
b. The Conflict between Sybil and Her Father
