CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
The focus of the study is the influence of the environmental determinant towards Bill Macneil’s personality development. In the first part, the writer wants
to analyze the characteristics of Bill Macneil. The second part is to analyze what aspects of environmental determinant that influences Bill Macneil’s personality
development. The third part is to analyze what is the most significant aspect of environmental development that plays the important role towards Bill Macneil’s
personality development.
A. Characterization of Bill Macneil
In order to understand Bill Macneil’s personality development, the writer wants to give brief description of Bill Macneil’s characterization in order to reveal
his personality. Bill can be categorized into dynamic or round character, since his character develops from beginning of the story until the end of the story. His
characteristics before and after he experienced World War II are quite different. In this part, the writer firstly wants to analyze Bill Macneil’s characteristics before
he experienced World War II, and then his characteristics after he experienced World War II.
1. Characterization of Bill Macneil before He Experienced World War II.
From his personal description, Bill Macneil is described as a smart person. This description can be seen from his conversation with his father.
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Bill Macneil squared his shoulders. “You want to talk about the coming war, don’t you, Dad?”
The father smiled at his son. He could always rely on Bill to know what was on his father’s mind. Seward, 2000:2.
The quotation above shows that Bill is a smart person; he knows his father well,
Bill recognizes that his father is in difficult situation, Neil wants to say something important to the other members of the family but Neil feels very hard to express it.
Bill knows it and then he guesses that his father wants to talk about the coming war. The quotation above also shows that Bill is a person who is aware of his
surrounding by reading someone’s gesture. Bill’s smartness can be seen from the conversation between him and his
college’s friend when they are talking about the war. “Hey, Macneil. You signed up yet?”
“Not yet.” “Better hurry. War will be over.’
Bill didn’t argue. He walked on, knowing the war would be hard and long. He would like to have seen Japan beaten and ground into earth
immediately, but he knew the Japanese too well. They would put up a stubborn resistance. Seward, 2000: 42.
Bill knows the Japanese well, and they will not go easy on this war. So, Bill does
not need to hurry in joining the army. He takes his time to study at college and then, when he thinks that the time is right, he will join the army. Instead of
debating with his friend, he walks away from his friend because he knows that the war is still far away from over.
Another Bill’s smartness can be seen from the way David Spencer sees Bill Macneil.
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