Persistent Whit The Monk .1 Tough

strange attitude. Jessie understands that she has to tell the truth to her husband about her affair. According to Murray 1981: 165, person’s personality develops against the background of both their past history and their future goals. On the other hand, an individual must understand where he has been and where he intends to go as a person. This novel shows how a tangled and guilty feeling experience are haunting Jessie for thirty- three years without clarification from anyone. This experience teaches Jessie to live with guilty feeling for years, and she realizes that it is hard. Therefore, she decides to tell the truth about her affair to her husband. His name is Brother Thomas. She had said it with complete condor and matter-of- factness as if she were telling him the name of her dentist. p. 310 Nelle really loves her husband. She even makes a sacrifice ritual for her husband. She cuts her finger to show her sacrifice to return her husband. She lifted her hand to Dad’s face in the photograph, and her eyes welled up. ‘I wanted to make up for what I did. To undo it. I just wanted him back. p. 349 Jessie understands that her mother loves her father much, and her accusation to her mother about the affair with father Dominic was wrong. She realizes that her mother’s strange attitude was to end her guilty feeling of her husband’s death. Her mother’s condition opens Jessie’s mind about her husband’s existence. She learns about how precious her husband is for her life and for her daughter. I would sit crossed- legged on the bed staring at the painting and listening to my tapes on the Walkman, thinking what an ideal father Hugh had been, not just for Dee but to me. God, to me, too. p.351 .After all, Jessie realizes that her mother tries to keep a good marriage and family. On the other hand, she ruins her perfect marriage with Hugh. According to Murphy 1972: 164, there are two ways to analyze one’s personality. There are by her speech and by her reaction 1972: 169. Jessie’s personalities are analyzed based on those theories. Jessie has just realized her husband’s existence after she is facing a problem. Moreover, she is amazed by her husband’s kindness that can conquer her ego. Egoistic is the most dominant character in Jessie’s personality. It is described in the novel that Jessie is an ordinary married woman, who has a perfect family with a great husband and a nice daughter. While for Jessie herself, she is just a woman who needs freedom and something new in her life. She realizes that she lives in a monotonous way in her marriage. Unfortunately, she chooses the wrong option to free herself from her boring daily activities as mother and wife by having an affair with a monk. The egoistic character is analyzed from her utterance. The selfishness comes from her strict life and self protected. -That I’ve become too stuffy and self- protected. Too conventional. p. 8 The novel tells that she is an egoistic one, she lives as if she lives in her own world. She thinks her twenty years marriage is like a chain of monotonous days. She even does not think about her husband and her daughter’s feeling when she makes a promise to stay with the monk, Whit. However, she sometimes still doubts her decision. He reached for me, holding me almost painfully close. ‘We could live near Asheville,’ he said. ‘At the end of some dirty roads in the middle of nowhere. And the hike on the weekends. Or go to Malaprop’s Bookstore and sit in the café.’ I realized then that there would be small domestic details and a flow of days, of anniversaries. It was as if it had all somehow just become real to him. ‘I would love that’. p. 270 Jessie’s selfishness influences her way of thinking all the time. Furthermore,