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thoughtful person, he always asks other’s opinion to ensure him that he chooses the right choice for him. Those two chracteristics are never gone from him. However,
there are some moments when he faces some new or different situations which affect and change his characteristics. When he has not married, he has a great effort
to study by focusing his life on his school as a pricipled person. Nevertheless, his passion to study is gone slowly when he starts loving Ethel by abandoning his
works and he leaves his school in the end. His experience of falling in love which he has not felt before is one of the examples which change his characteristics as a
round character. There are also some ways used by the author to characterize the character.
They are personal description, character as seen by another, speech, past life, conversation of others, reactions, direct comment, thoughts, and mannerisms
Murphy, 1972, pp. 161-173. To analyze Mr. Lewisham’s characteristics some of the methods of characterization are applied. Mr. Lewisham is described as:
1. Well-Organized
Mr. Lewisham is really well-organized. He arranges his perfect plans to achieve his degree. He even indicates when and where he must finish his study
through his Schema. He plans to take B. A. degree with ‘hons’ for all subjects in 1892 and to get a ‘gold medal’ in 1895 at the London University p. 4. In other
words, he has to accomplish his study for three years. The way he arranges his life is also shown through his daily activities. He
sets his routine behavior in every minute or every hour in a whole day through his Time-Table. He never misses a single second to spend his precious time.
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The lumps of a mellow chocolate on the prepared ledge by the bed-head, indorsed that evidence. ‘French until eight’, said the time table curly.
Breakfast was to be eaten in twenty minutes; then twenty-five minutes of ‘literature’ to be precise, learning extras preferably pompous from the play
of William Shakespeare-and then to school and duty. The time table further prescribed Latin Composition for the recess and the dinner hour, literature,’
however, during the meal, and varied its injunction for the rest of the twenty-four hours according to the day of the week. Not a moment for Satan
and that ‘mischief still’ of his. Only three-score and ten has the confidence, as well as the time, to be idle p. 4.
He knows how to organize between his available time and all activities very well. In 24 hours, his time is enough for resting, working, and also studying. He does not
spend some times for pleasurable things like socializing with his friends. However, he changes his habit when he is in love with Ethel. He changes
into a messy a person. It starts when he is late for dinner. The reason is he meets her when he is going home in the afternoon. The result is he only has a little time to
prepare before he is going to go to school tomorow p. 23. Even Mrs. Munday, the owner of his lodging, is wandering about his act because he is never late for
anything previously and this is the first time he does differently from his time table. Not only being late for dinner but he also escapes from his duty as a cricket
supervisor when Mr. Bonover asks for his help p. 26-27. As a well organized peson, he must priotities his work or job as tated on the Time Table but he changes
it into the last priority to see her. When their relationship are over, he is back to his former characteristic as a
well-organized person. He tries to calculate his money only for his school needs such as books p.44. However, when he meets her for the second time and wants
to please her, he becomes inefficient. Suddenly, he spends his money to buy her a jewelry p.78. After buying it for her, he also plans to buy her many more without
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thinking his saving for his school. At this short time, he is not a well-organized person but he changes into a messy person by buying unimportant things without
considering his budget first. However, when both Mr. Lewisham and Ethel have to manage their
financial matter after marying, he turns himself anymore into a well-organized person. He makes some notes to calculate his income and outcome. He counts how
much money that is used for his study and daily needs compared to the money Ethel and he have in hand, and also from his saving at a bank and scholarship p.
129. His calculation is very detailed. He makes sure that those things are balanced. Through his manners, it can be seen that he keeps his characteristics as a
well oerganized person but he also changes himself into a messy person in the middle of the story. Mostly, he changes himself into the bad one when he meets his
love. He cannot manage himself especially to separate between important and unimportant matters or between job and pleasure.
2. Doubtful
