record in the federal building. Therefore, I can conclude that she is a very diligent woman.
4.1.5 Caring
Darby Shaw is a caring woman. She really cares to Callahan. At first, she is his student at the school of law and then she becomes his lover. She loves
Callahan very much. She shows her attention and care in any situation, including when they have an argument over a dinner. At that time, they have the dinner at a
restaurant. The argument starts whenever Darby Shaw forbids Callahan from drinking too much alcohol. Callahan gets drunk and is not able to walk and drive.
Darby Shaw, who cares Callahan, asks him not to drive. She says that she will drive the car. Darby Shaw asks the key from Callahan. Darby Shaw is afraid that
Callahan will have an accident if he drives the car with high alcohol level on his blood.
The argument started with dessert, a portion of the meal Callahan preferred to drink. He was drinking too fast and getting sloppy, and by
the time she finished rattling off this accounting he was angry. He gulped it and ordered another, and she was furious p.123
Darby Shaw forces Callahan to hand the key by stopping on the other side of the road and refuses to go home by car. She insists that she will walk
home if Callahan does not hand the key. The argument turned nasty on the sidewalk as they walked away
from the restaurant. He pulled the keys to the Porsche from his pocket, and she said he was too drunk to drive. She said she would walk. Have a
nice one, he said. His blood level was at least point-two-zero. He was a law professor, dammit. He would kill someone p. 123
Another fact that shows us Darby is a caring woman is when she is thinking about her family. She has a mother and a brother and also a pass away
father. In her father’s death in the plane crash, the family lawyer tricks them to get the biggest portion of the insurance payment. The lawyer makes them pay
him for two years for his bungling work and stalling. Finally the lawyer gets five hundreds thousand dollars while Darby only gets one hundred thousand dollars.
Because of her caring to her family that has been tricked by a dirty lawyer, Darby wants to take revenge to the lawyer’s malpractices. Then, she decided to be a
lawyer. Beside taking a revenge, Darby also cares the environment. She also wants to be a lawyer to protect the environment. She wants to sue any party that
destroys the environment. The way Darby shows her caring can be seen from the following quotation:
His name was Herschel, and for two years the family suffered as Herschel stalled and lied and bungled the case. They settled a week before trial for
half million, after Herschel’s cut, and Darby got a hundred thousand.
She decided to be a lawyer. If a clown like Herschel could do it and make a big bucks while wreaking havoc on society, then she certainly could do
it for nobler purposes. She thought of Herschel often. When she passed the bar exam, her first lawsuit would be filed against him for malpractice.
She wanted to work for an environmental firm. Finding a job, she knew, would not be a problem p.117
Above quotations, based on the author’s direct comments, show us that she really
a caring person. She is very attentive to Callahan and loving him very much. Since she knows that Callahan is drunk, she forbids him driving the car because
she worries that Callahan will have accident because of driving drunk. She also cares to her family and also to environment. She can not receive that her family
has been tricked by a dirty lawyer who takes the biggest portion of the insurance payment. She also wants to be a lawyer to protect environment.
4.2 Darby Shaw’s Conflicts and Their Resolutions
Perrine 1972: 44 describes conflict as “a clash of action, ideas, desire, or wills between two individual and people in the society that can include,
physical, mental, emotional, or moral”. While Kalish 1996: 450 states that “conflict is a type of stress as a result of two or more different needs. The
satisfaction of one need leads to the non satisfaction of another need, or the satisfaction of one need brings unpleasant consequences”. Other experts,
Worchel and Cooper divide conflict into two kinds, intrapersonal conflict and interpersonal conflict. Intrapersonal conflict is a conflict that arises within one
character or by him or herself. Whereas, interpersonal conflict is a conflict that arises between the characters with the power outside the character. In this part, I
describe some conflicts which are experienced by Darby Shaw. The explanation will be divided into two parts: her intra-personal conflicts and her interpersonal
conflict
4.2.1 Intra-personal conflicts
In this novel, Darby Shaw experiences some intra-personal conflicts. Worchel and Cooper 1979: 460 define intra-personal conflict as a conflict that
arises within one character or by him or herself. Next, the conflicts experienced by Darby Shaw. They are conflicts on believing in Thomas Callahan’s death, on
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