Subject Matter Approach of the Study

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CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY

This chapter discusses the methodology used in this study. In this chapter is divided into three parts, namely subject matter, approach of the study, and method of the study. The first part is subject matter. I explain the focus of the study in this part. The second part discusses the approach that is used to analyze this novel. The last part is method of the study. This part discusses method of gathering data, primary and secondary data, and procedure.

3.1 Subject Matter

The subject of the study in this thesis is The Makioka Sisters. This is a Japan’s greatest post-war novel written by Junichiro Tanizaki. It was firstly published in 1947 in Japan with the title Sasame Yuki, Light Snow. This study uses the English translation The Makioka Sisters, which was published in 1957 by Edward G. Seidensticker. The novel contains 37 chapters and 530 pages long. This novel tells about a declining glory of a great Osaka merchant family on the eve of war. The family’s name is Makioka. There are four sisters Makioka. This study analyzes one of the four sisters. Her name is Yukiko Makioka, the third daughter. She is 30 years old and still unmarried. The story starts from the attempts of finding a husband for Yukiko Makioka. Her sisters and brothers-in- law always try to find a good husband for her. They get many proposals from men who want to get married to Yukiko Makioka but they cannot accept those 26 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI proposals. It is because those men cannot fulfill the criteria of Yukiko Makioka’s family and herself. They know those men cannot fulfill their criteria because they investigate those men after they get the proposal. Actually, Yukiko Makioka wants to get married when she was 20 years old. She loves her father very much. Therefore, she wants to get to a man who has a good job, good personality, good house, and good status in the society because she came from the great family and upper class just before the war and her father died. In fact, she cannot find a man who has those criteria. In the end, she gets married to Mimaki who is an architect.

3.2 Approach of the Study

This study focuses on the character of Yukiko Makioka and the motivation of Yukiko Makioka’s family in finding a husband for her. I need an approach to analyze the problems in this study. Based on Rohrberger and Woods 6-15, theory of approaches, I select the psychological approach. The psychological approach is the most suitable one for this study because the psychological approach helps me in analyzing human motivation, personality, behavior, emotion, and thought which is related to the field of psychology. Therefore, I get more understandings of Yukiko Makioka’s character and the motivation of Yukiko Makioka’s family in finding a husband for her by using the psychological approach in this study.

3.3 Method of the Study