Besides that, both of them are difficult to find the right man to be their husband, especially, Sheila Levine. Because of that Sheila Levine feels unfortune
and decides to commit suicide. Before she commits suicide, she plans everything for her funeral.
A. Approach of the Study
In analyzing works of literature, some critics have their own ways and approaches. This study goes deeper on analyzing the character development and the
setting on the novel. The analysis will go directly seeing the text of the novel. It is suitable to choose new criticism as the approach.
Bressler 1999: 43 said that new criticism approach concentrates to reveal the structure of the work of art and its interrelationship to find out the idea
developed from the work itself. This approach is chosen since it covers some aspects that relate each other
to answer the problem formulation stated in the first chapter, exploring the description of Sheila Levine’s character, description of New York’s lifestyle trough
the setting in the novel and result of Sheila Levine’s character under those impacts.
Thus, new criticism is the most appropriate one to be used. B.
Method of the Study
In this study, the writer used library research for the method. The writer needed two kinds of sources in supporting this study. The writer used the book itself
entitled Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York, some other theories and also review of the impact of lifestyle on the character. The book itself was the primary
source and the other theories and also review were the secondary source.
The primary source was the book itself. The title was Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York
by Gail Parent. The secondary source was the theories that supported this study and the reviews of related studies that related with this work.
The theories was taken from some books of theories such as A Glossary of Literary Terms
by M.H. Abrams, Reading and Writing about Literature by Mary Rohrberger and Samuel H. Woods, Aspect of the Novel by E.M. Foster, A Handbook to
Literature by Hugh Holman and William Harmon, An Approach to English
Literature by E. Van Laar and Schoonderwoerd, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of
Literary Terms written by Christ Baldick.
The writer also took the reviews of related studies from the undergraduate thesis. First one was The Reflection of Twentieth Century American Woman as seen
in Gail Paren’s Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York by Siti Sulasmi. Second was taken from The Motivation of Sheila Levine in Committing Suicide as
seen in Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in new York by Windy Wirdhoningrum.
This work needed some steps for analyzing. First, the writer read and re- read this work itself Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in new York repeatedly and
carefully to understand the work itself. Then, the writer decided the elements that was going to be used. Only then, the writer found the intrinsic elements such as
characteristics of the character and the setting. Furthermore, the writer identified every element carefully.
Second, the writer was finding and collecting reviews of studies. Then, the writer was collecting theories book related with this work. The writer found some
theories book through library research by borrowing the books. Another way that
