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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
In this chapter, the two questions of problem formulation mentioned in the first chapter are answered. The theories written in chapter two and method from
chapter three are utilized to answer the problem formulation. This chapter is divided into three parts. The first part identifies the characteristics of Nyasha. The
second part analyzes how Nyasha s hybrid identity is presented from postcolonial point of view. The last part contains the interpretation and reflection of the writer
toward Nervous Conditions.
A. The Characteristics of Nyasha
In this first part of analysis, I use the theory from M. J. Murphy to describe the characteristics of Nyasha. The characteristics of Nyasha is obtained from the
way character is seen by Another, speech, past lives, reaction, and mannerism. This characterization of Nyasha then is divided into two sections: the physical
descriptions and the characteristics of Nyasha. The physical description refers to how Nyasha is described physically. Nyasha s characteristics refer to Nyasha s
personality, including her thought, reaction, and habits that affect her behavior. 1.
The Physical Descriptions of Nyasha
Based on Murphy, the first way to understand the personality of the character is by obtaining the information of the character s personal description, in
terms of physical appearance. Thus, at first, the researcher describes the physical description of Nyasha.
The author of the novel depicts Nyasha s physical appearance through the way she is seen from another s character mostly Tambudzai who is the major
character. In the description of Tambudzai, Nyasha is described as a bright young girl, my cousin Nyasha, pretty bright Nyasha Dangarembga, 1989: 37. She
mostly wears clothes that cannot cover her thighs: There was no other explanation for the tiny little dress she wore, hardly
enough of it to cover her thighs. She was self-conscious though, constantly clasping her hands behind her buttocks to prevent her dress from riding up,
and observing everybody through veiled vigilant eyes to see what we were thinking. Dangarembga, 1989: 37.
When Nyasha and her family back from England, she starts to receive the rejection because of the clothes she wears. It deemed inappropriate for her to wear
such tiny clothes. Her friends at school sneer at her and criticize her clothes, The way she dresses for the Saturday night dances And the way she was acting with
George [or Johnson or Mathias or Chengetai] Dangarembga, 1989: 94. Her parents and others disapprove of her way of clothing because it is considered as
too short, as stated in Tambu s narration, Nyasha liked to avoid her parents and their parent at these times because they were too bound to say something
offensive, like complaining that her gym-slip was too short... Dangarembga, 1989: 99.
Nyasha choice of clothing is her own decision and she chose to wear the clothes that seem inappropriate for other people. The moment when the school
holds the dances event, Nyasha chooses to wear the dress that for Tambudzai is too short and inappropriate. Nyasha stuffed the pantie-hose she had just removed
down the foot of the bed and straightened her dress, which was so short it did not
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