is described as a dilettante, a wealthy man who lives a life of idleness. He goes to the hotspring after spending eight days in the mountains and asks for a geisha. All of the
geishas, however, are busy with a celebration in the village so Shimamura ends up with Komako, a young girl who has not yet become a full-fledged geisha. Their
relationship is rocky; Komako is too young, too clean but they become lovers in spite of Shimamura’s hesitancy. Komako, unlike Shimamura, throws herself into the
relationship with her whole heart. An added complication to their relationship is Yoko, a young girl Shimamura notices on the train when he make his first visit to the
resort and then becomes fascinated with her. At the end of the novel, Komako has told Shimamura to leave and not return,
saying she will live a normal life if he stays away. Shimamura, who seems to care more for Komako than he wants to or is comfortable with, is on the verge of leaving
when a fire tragedy occurs in the village. The tragedy seems as a final ending for their relationship.
3.2 Approach of the Study
A certain approach is needed to analyze a work because the way we use to view the work is based on the approach. Since this study deals with psychological
aspect that is used to analyze the main character in the novel, Shimamura, the Psychological approach is used. By using this approach, the character is analyzed
from the psychological point of view.
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The character’s behaviour, attitude, thinking, and appearance towards other people in his social relationship must be noticed. The psychological aspects of human
being and their interactions with others in a society present that it may values and can be analyzed.
3.3 Method of the Study
This study uses library research as a method in gathering the data. Since it conducts a library research, some sources are used to support the analysis. Yasunari
Kawabata’s Snow Country is used as the primary source. Some books such as Reading and Writing about Literature by Rohrberger and Woods, M.J Murphy’s book
about how an author reveals the characters’ personalities and traits to the readers, and electronic sources accesses as the secondary source.
This study also concerns about the steps taken in the analysis, so that the solution to the problems formulated in this study is able to be obtained. There were
some steps taken in analyzing this study. Firstly is that the primary source, the novel Snow Country, was started to be read for many times in order to get better
understanding of the novel, and to focus on the problems that are analyzed. The main character, Shimamura, is become the main attention and focus to be analyzed.
Secondly, the summary of the novel been made in order to make points that would be discussed. It is intended to make guidelines for the analysis. This step was
taken also in order to make the study more focus on the main problem discussed.
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Thirdly, theories of characters, characterization, and motivations as secondary sources were read in order to analyze the main problem as formulated in the problem
formulations. It was intended to get better understanding about the problem that would be discussed and to focus the analysis.
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CHAPTER 4 ANALYSIS
