time, Jenna had a bravery to decide what she goes to take for her life with the baby then. She decides to divorce from her husband, Earl, and make her affair
with her gynecologist, Dr. Pomatter over. Furthermore, she won the pie bake-off contest, and later she owned her
pie shop that she runs with Dawn and Becky, then change it name into Lulu’s Pies based on her daughter name. Afterwards, her life becomes happily ever after
with her cute little baby and she can finds her own destiny and determines her own way.
It will be quite interesting to scrutinize various efforts by jenna for liberating herself from any kinds of subordination especially from private
patriarchy tied up in her domestic life. This film packaged and well done played by Kery Russel, make Waitress enthusiastic to be discussed. This is the reason
why the writer intends to examine feminism values which is reflected through the character of jenna and her attempt to achieve a better life quality of hers.
B. Focus of the study
Based on the background of the study above, the research exploring what kinds of intimidations experienced by Jenna in Waitress movie and how the movie
depicted the feminism values through the character of Jenna does especially in her fighting agains private patriarchy. This focus is aimed to make the research
becomes guided and simplified the discussion.
C. Research Questions
The research question of this study is:
1. How does Jenna reflect feminism values in her fighting against the intimidations she experienced in Waitress movie?
D. Significance of the Research
By analyzing this movie, the researcher hopes that she can share her perception about feminism, women movement, and women fight to get an
equality, and the same right as men do to the other researchers or readers. Furthermore, the researcher wishes that it can give the enlightenment to the other
researchers in applying feminist theory in doing literary researchart research.
E. The objectives of the Research
The objective of this research is to understand how do Jenna reflect feminism values in her fight against the intimidations she experienced in Waitress
movie.
F. Research Methodology
1. Research Method Based on the research question and the significance of the study
above, the writer applies qualitative method with descriptive analysis. The writer tries to find the answer of the research question through the data
analysis and relates it to the feminism theory. 2. Technique of the Data Analysis
In this research, the data that is collected is qualitatively analized. The writer uses feminism and patriarchy theory as an approach. First, the
writer watches the movie carefully for the several times. This is aimed to learn the contents of the movie intensively so it can prevent
misunderstanding in analysis process. Then, the writer gives annotations about the movie. Finally, the writer relates it to the feminism and
patriarchy theory. 3. Research Instrument
In this research, the writer uses herself as a human instrument. The writer tries to get qualitative data about the intimidations faced by the
character of Jenna and how she represents feminism values in her fighting against it in Waitress movie. The writer has been watching the movie
carefully. Then she marks the intimidations experienced by jenna and her fight against it to find out the evidence of feminism values in the movie.
4. The unit of Data Analysis The unit of the study uses in this research is waitress movie.
Waitress is a 2007 American movie that was produced by Fox Search Light pictures and Night and Day Pictures in New York, directed by
Adrienne Shelly and written by Adrienne Shelly. 5. Place and Time of the Research
This research is executed on the ninth-tenth semester of 2009-2010 academic year at the English letters department in the faculty of Adab and
Humanities, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta.
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