1 The Character of Jessica Brennan

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CHAPTER 4 ANALYSIS

This section is to analyze and answer the problems formulated in chapter one. The problems are concerning Jessica Brennan’s characters and the feminism that appears through Jessica Brennan in When Daylight Comes. Therefore, the analysis focuses on the main character, Jessica Brennan. The first problem is analyzed using Murphy’s theory of characterization. The theory consists of nine ways to identify the character. I use the theory to understand the character in detail. The second problem deals with the feminism. I use the theory feminism to analyze the feminism that appears through the main character.

4. 1 The Character of Jessica Brennan

Jessica Brennan is the major character in the novel, When Daylight Comes by Lyn Andrews. She is usually called Jess in the family. Her father, Martin Brennan, is the captain and the owner of the Brennan Line; while her mother, Magdalene Brennan, usually called Maddy, is the partnership of her father in managing the line. She has an older brother named Patrick Brennan. Jessica is twenty one years old. Andrews describes it through Jess’ thought when she collects her jewellery and remembers the present her father gives to her. “… She had a few pieces of good jewellery. The diamond and aquamarine necklace and earrings that had been her twenty-first birthday 24 present….” p. 50. Jess is two years younger than her brother. It is shown when she thinks about Patrick. “… Two years older than herself, Patrick was tall, thin, fair -haired and blue-eyed” p. 4. Jessica inherits both her parents. It is shown in the novel through her mother’s thought when she brings back her past young days. Maddy smiled at her daughter Jessica. Jess, as she was called in the family, was so like her. Of course she herself was a middle -aged woman now, but Jess’s dark hair and eyes reminded her of the young Maddy Kiernan who had come to Liverpool from Ireland all those years ago. And she seemed to have inherited all her father’s good points too p. 1. Jess looks at her father’s picture and sees how she is so like her father. “… Her father smiled from the photograph, his eyes and his smile so like her own….” p. 76. Another opinion is given by other character named Ronan. He is Jess’s cousin. He sees that Jess inherits her father’s characters and her mother’s beautifulness. “… She was so like her mother to look at, but her character was that of her father….” p. 10. Although Jess inherits both her parents, she is different with her brother. Jessica says that they are unlike each other. “I don’t look a bit like my brother Patrick- and he’s not like me in nature either” p. 13. Ronan also thinks that Patrick is not the same as Jess. He has the characters which are contrary to Jess’s. “… She had inherited the best while Patrick, her brother, seemed to be like neither of them….” p. 10. The following characters discuss specifically about Jessica, they are stubborn, confident, optimist, independent, strong, and hard working. 25

4. 1. 1 Stubborn