CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. Data Description
In chapter III, having read the novel, the writer finds some statements as the corpus of the research. They are classified into two groups: character and neuroses.
They are presented in the following tables.
1. The List of Claudia Parr’s Characters in Emily Giffin’s Baby Proof
No .
Corpus Page Remark
1 “I never wanted to be a mother.”
1 Persistent
2 “I steadfastly maintain that short of being orphaned of severely disfigured was the worst
thing that can happen to a fifth-grader…” 48 Lonely
3 “I never had any illusions that either of my
parents was perfect” 48 Pessimist
4 “I remember how pathetic that I am at that time”
48 Pathetic
5 “…my mother left us for real, giving up custody
to my father when I was thirteen” 50 Sad
childhood 6
“…you’re accident, an unplanned pregnancy.” 116 Unexpected
child
7 “The fact that I don’t want children because I
have such issues with my own mother.” 50
Hate her mother’s figure
8 “…everyone who has messed-up family thought
that it was only a tiresome cop-out to blame your bad childhood…”
50 Unconfident
9 “…even with a mother like mine…”
108 Embarrassed
10 “I can’t deny that there is a little life-shaping stigma in having a mother who cheats on her
family…” 50 Bad
childhood
11 “I don’t want to be something that someone has
to overcome” 50 Overwhelming
frightened 12 “I still could have sworn things would be so
much neater and easier than they were turning out to be”
108 Optimist
13 “Now I live in the present and stop sniveling about the past.”
50 Forgiving
2. The List of Neuroses in Emily Giffin’s Baby Proof
No. Corpus Page Remark
1. “…And although my relationship ended for
some variety reasons, I always had sense that babies were the factor.”
1 Anxiety reactions
2 “After all, most people—women and women—view not wanting kids as a deal
breaker. At the very least, my risked coming across as cold and selfish…”
3 Anxiety symptoms
3 “I always have the feeling that she is directing
her comments at me and that she blames me for our decision. Ben used to say that I was
paranoid, but now, of course I’m actually right…”
43 Overwhelming anxiety
4 “I think I have always has the misguided
sense that worry and fear serve as an insurance policy of sorts.“
46 Unreasonable fears
5 “I hate to be jaded, but I can’t help feeling
that my fears about marriage were confirmed when I and Ben broke up. If I thought I was
free when I didn’t want children, I’m 141 Neuroses
symptoms
especially free now that I even don’t want a husband.”
6 “…fear of failure, fear of change, fear of the
unknown…” 89 Neuroses
7 “I always cave—not for her sake, nor because
I need or want to be a mother—but because I don’t want my mother to define who I am,
and not talking to her would do that in some bizarre sense.”
114 Anxiety in
the childhood
8 “I never did think I was anything like my
mother, nor did I peg her as the main reason I didn’t want children.”
117-118 Neuroses
9 “…which has the effect of making you fear
losing someone than if it were the other way around.”
46 Neuroses
10 “I knew that my love for Ben was the most real thing I had ever known, but I still fretted
that I was setting myself up for disappointment.”
66 Anxiety reactions
11 “I don’t know whether I will overcome my fears of motherhood. Whether I will someday
be a mother. Whether I am capable of being a good one”
306 Anxiety reactions
12 “”Nothing has changed. Ben wants a baby and, maybe, either do I…”
89 Anxiety reactions
13 “That I would do anything to get him back, even if that means having a baby; that I nearly
might even want a baby with him. That I want to do is share my life with him, in whatever
form takes.” 300 Anxiety
reactions
B. Character Analysis
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