CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of four parts. The first part is object of the study, which is a novel, entitled
A Way of Love
by James Courage. This part will tell briefly the story of the novel. The second part describes sources used for this study. The third
part is the approach applied to accomplish the study. The last part describes steps of study used to conduct the study systematically.
A. Object of the Study
The object of this study is the novel by James Courage entitled
A Way of Love
. The novel was first published in 1959. It was printed in Great of OXFORD at the Alden press on paper made by John Dickson and Co. LTD and bounded by
A.W.BAIN Co. LTD, London. The novel consists of 225 pages. It is divided into three parts. The first part tells
the first meeting of Philip Dill with Bruce Quantock, a middle-aged man who lives in his small house in London and works as an architect and also a homosexual. In this
part, Philip and Bruce begin to know each other. They start to introduce each other. In this part, Philip begins to know that he finds a figure like his father, an expectation
that he has missed for a long time since his father dies. Bruce is the figure who resembles his father. Part two tells us about the relationship between Philip and Bruce
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The conflict arises, in this part, Philip start to describe his father further, especially about their relationship. He explains his father‟s job and what his father has done to
him. In part three, many conflicts have happened. The story ends with the break of the relationship between the couple, and Bruce realizes that his relationship with
Philip just the transferring of Philip‟s deep emotional feeling to his father. Basically, this story tells about the relationship between two men who involve in
a love affair, which ends in separation. Though it is about a love affair, what is revealed in this story does not just about love but a deep thing experienced by the
characters. One of the characters tells the reason why this relation happened. Then, the reason has been identified, it starts with the mutual love and respect between the
char acter and his father in the character‟s childhood, the effects that influence his
behavior and makes him fall into another way of life in existent world.
B. Approach of the Study
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