theories and literature theories are implemented and connected by the use of relation between psychology and literature theory.
C. Method of Study
This study employed library research method because this study did not use field data and only used sources from books such as book of theories, undergraduate
thesis and internet references. The main or primary source of this study is the short story itself. The other sources are psychological theories, literary theories, and
criticisms, such as Mary Rohrberger and Samuel H. Wood jr’s Reading and Writing about Literature,
Peter Barry’s Beginning Theory, an introduction to literary and cultural theory, M.H.A
brams’s A Glossary of Literary Terms. Seventh Edition, Butcher-Mineka-
Hooley’s Abnormal Psychology Overtime, Jess Feist and Gregory J. Feist’s Theories of Personality, Eagleton’s Literary Theory; An Introduction, Wayne
C. Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction, and also Freud’s Neurosis and Psychosis. This method also allows several steps. The first step is thoroughly reading the
short story. T o identify the main character’s characteristics, Abrams’ theory of
character and Rohrberger-Wood theories of characteristics is used. In this study, the narrator’s characteristics are the main focus. Therefore, theory point of view is
important to determine how the story gets told by the narrator. To examine the unreliability of the narrator,
Rabinowitz and Nunning’s unreliable narrator theory is used.
To prove the authenticity, this study is compared between all of the studies mentioned in the review of related studies. After that, psychoanalysis approach is
used to answer the problem formulation. In this step, the data in this study is analyzed systematically based on the problem formulation sequences.
Finally, after the elaboration of the problem formulation, conclusions are made. The conclusions are made based on the answers that have been stated in this study.
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