Therefore, Yukiko’s family approach motivation in finding a husband for Yukiko is because they expect Yukiko to get married soon. Yukiko’s family is
optimistic that they can find a husband for Yukiko even though they have to go far away from Osaka to search their opportunities in finding a husband for
Yukiko.
4.2.5 Avoidant Motivation
According to Higgins in Franken’s, in avoidant behavior, people do things to avoid something 3. Higgins also says avoidant motivation is “the need to keep
themselves safe and out of harms away” 8. Yukiko’s family try to find a husband for Yukiko because they want to avoid what people said and thought
negatively about Yukiko. It is because Yukiko was in the marriageable age in that time but she was still unmarried. It is shown by the author’s direct comment,
“Some, it would appear, looked for deep and subtle reasons to explain the fact that Yukiko, the third of the four sisters, had passed the marriageable age and reached
thirty without a husband” 8. There is also a newspaper incident happened that gave a bad effect for
Yukiko’s name. When Yukiko was twenty seven or twenty eight years old, Taeko Yukiko’s younger sister had eloped with her boyfriend. They wanted to get
married but the custom would not allow them. It was because Yukiko was still unmarried. Taeko had to wait until her family found a husband for Yukiko. This
incident appeared in the local newspaper. The newspaper said that the main problem was Yukiko. It is shown by the author’s direct comment:
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“Some five or six years earlier, when she had been nineteen, Taeko, the youngest of the sisters, had eloped with a son of the Okubatas, an old
Semba family who kept a jewelry store. Her motives were reasonable enough, it would seem: custom would not allow her to marry before a
husband was found for Yukiko, and she had decide to take the extraordinary measures. The two families, however, were not sympathetic.
The lovers were promptly discovered and brought home, and so the incident passed-but for the unhappy fact that a small Osaka newspaper
took it up. In the newspaper story, Yukiko, not Taeko, was made the principal, and even the age given was Yukiko’s” 11.
Even though Yukiko’s family asked the newspaper to revise the news
about Yukiko, there were just a few people knew that Yukiko had been maligned. It is shown by the author direct comment:
“A few people no doubt saw the revised newspaper story and knew that she had been maligned, but no matter how pure and proper she might be
herself, it was now known what sort of sister she had, and, for all her self- confidence, Yukiko presently found marriage withdrawing into the
distance” 13. After the newspaper incident, a man who was from a class above the
Makioka also had refused his miai arranging marriage with Yukiko. It was because that man and his family knew about the newspaper incident. It is shown
by the author’s direct comment: “There had, it was true, been a similar proposal some five years before.
The man had belonged to a class above the Makiokas, and when, much excited, they had set about investigating, they had found to their very great
disappointment that there was evidence of a domestic scandal” 331. Therefore, Yukiko’s family has the avoidant motivation. They try to find a
husband for Yukiko because they avoid what people said and thought about Yukiko negatively.
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CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter is divided into two parts. The first part is conclusions. The conclusions concern the answers of the formulated problems. The second part is
suggestions. The suggestions consist of two parts. They are suggestion for future researcher s and suggestion for English teaching-learning activity.
5.1 Conclusions
In this part, there are two points that can be presented. The first point is the description of Yukiko Makioka’s character. In the novel Yukiko Makioka is
described as a shy, quiet, submissive, patient, passive, and introvert person. The second point is the motivations of Yukiko Makioka’s family in
finding a husband for Yukiko. There are five kinds of motivation found in the analysis of this novel. The first is the extrinsic motivation. Yukiko is so passive
and shy that makes Yukiko’s family has to find a husband for Yukiko. The extrinsic reward for Yukiko’s family when they succeed to find a husband for
Yukiko is the wedding of Yukiko itself. The extrinsic reward of Yukiko’s family when they succeed to find a husband of Yukiko is the wedding Yukiko itself.
The second is the intrinsic motivation. To find a husband for Yukiko, Yukiko has the criteria of a man who want to be Yukiko’s husband. The criteria
are he has to come from good family and money. They do that because Yukiko is thirty years old and not a career woman. The Makioka‘s fortunes also declined.
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