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she will go and who will take her to the airport. Sometimes Hugh’s affection is really amazing for Jessie, but this treatment is sometimes too much for Jessie. She feels not free because of Hugh treatment. Therefore, Jessie needs something to excite herself. Before coming downstairs, he’d booked me a one-way ticket to Charleston and arranged to cancel his early afternoon patients so he can drive me to the airport p.24 Considering Hugh’s attention to Jessie, it is proven that Jessie is being spoiled by her husband. Therefore, Jessie insists that she needs something to alter her life. Hugh puts too much attention to her and it is bothering her. As I descended the stairs, the years between us seemed accumulated everywhere, filling the house, and it seemed strange to me, how love and habit blurred so thoroughly to make a life. p.34 His love to Jessie is above all things in the world. He could even cry for Jessie. The fact that Jessie has an affair with a monk leaves a very deep scar in Hugh. Hugh is known as a very patient and strong husband. However, there is a condition when Jessie’s mistakes change him into someone who is weak and impatient. However, he is trying to handle his condition. She went on calling him for unbearable amount of time. When she finally left, tears shot up behind his eyes. He sat on one of the twin beds, trying to choke down the urge to cry. He wouldn’t have Jessie hearing him cry. He needed to get hold of himself. p. 331 Although Hugh is considered as a wonderful man, still, he cries for his wife’s leaving. The good thing is he would never let his wife know if he is crying. He is crying alone, he keeps and holds all his emotion alone. He would never let other people feel his sadness. We can analyze it by using his reaction when he faces his marriage problem. Hugh cries loudly alone in a room, it describes his reaction toward PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Jessie’s confession. We can see the evidence from the quotation from the novel above.

4.1.2.3 Merciful

We can analyze this character by using other people’s opinion about this character. Hugh is in a very big problem when it is about his marriage problem. However, Hugh is considered as a person who is merciful. Although Hugh has known the fact, He still does not believe that Jessie has done an affair. He believes that he knows Jessie and he trusts her much. Hugh believes that their marriage is perfect, he has done as perfect as he can for the sake of a perfect family. When he’d first seen the image and the crazy idea had seized him, he’d stood there for several minutes, then thought, No. it was preposterous to think Jessie capable of that. Preposterous. He’d always trusted her. Without question. p. 312 Hugh is not stubborn. He forgives Jessie or her mistakes. Jessie goes back to Hugh, hoping he will forgive her. Jessie believes that Hugh will forgive her. However, she is not too sure. She has been hurting him that much. Part of it was pure, cowardly fear, but it was also the hope that I might catch him off guard, and in those one or two moments he would forget what I’d done, and his heart would fill with so much love it would override every justified reason to send me away. That was my foolish, unreasoned hope. p. 365 Jessie is making a big mistake but deep inside Hugh’s heart has forgiven Jessie. His love to his wife is very deep. He understands that it was just a mistake and he believes that Jessie will come back. He starts to understand Jessie’s situation. ‘I missed you,’ he said to me, leaning close to my ear. I clutched his hand almost fiercely, pulling his fingers to my face, touching them with my lips. There would be no grand absolution, only forgiveness meted out in these precious sips. It would well up from Hugh’s heart PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI