Staring straight down at me, I should say. He must be well over six feet tall with dark hair and dark eyes and ... wow. Isn’t that suit nice? An
expensive suit that almost makes you want to be a man. It’s inky blue with a faint purple stripe, single breasted, with proper horn buttons. As I run my
eyes over it I find myself wondering if it’s by Oswald Boateng, and whether the jacket’s got a silk lining in some stunning color Kinsella,
2005: 9. Rebecca’s working environment also influences her as a shopaholic. She
always compares her outfit with the PR girl. She looks at the appearance of PR girls from their outfit’s brand. Unfortunately, the PR girls wear branded outfits
like what Rebecca usually wears. She tries to mention every detail of it. Rebecca’s working environment is also surrounded by the people who have high standard of
lifestyle. Actually, Rebecca feels comfortable with some relationships with other women who has high standard of lifestyle. However, this situation also makes
Rebecca’s desire to have this lifestyle is growing bigger.
3. Family
The role of family in life is very important. It is because family is the very first place for children to learn something. The role of parents in a family is the
most important. A child will try to copy what hisher parents do. Some children usually have the same character with the mother or the father. In the term of
setting, Murphy has said that past time has some influences to the characteristic of the character.
Someone’s personality will develop by the family. Family is the important point that influences someone’s personality. It is because family is the very basic
society for the character’s development. In this story, Rebecca has parents who
really love her. Rebecca’s mother is described as a woman who likes to shop. It is similar to Rebecca. However, in this case, her mother is not as shopaholic as
Rebecca. Mom’s terrible. She’s always buying new stuff for the kitchen—and she just
gives the old stuff to charity shops. New kettles, new toaster ... We’ve already had three new rubbish bins this year—dark green, then chrome, and
now yellow translucent plastic Kinsella, 2005: 29. Mum’s really happy, too, as she’s found a pair of candle sticks for her
collection. She got collections of candle sticks, toast racks, pottery jugs, glass animal, embroidered samplers, and thimbles. Personally, I don’t think
the thimbles count as a proper collection, because she got the whole lot. Including the cabinet, from an ad at the back of the Mail on Sunday
magazine. But she never tells anybody that. In fact, I shouldn’t have mentioned it. Kinsella, 2005: 30
It shows that Rebecca’s mother also likes to buy something which is not necessary, for example the kitchen stuff. She buys a new toaster even though she
still has the good one. She usually buys something just because the color, the shape, or the motive. Also, her mom buys some unnecessary stuffs. The writer
concludes that Rebeca’s mom is also a woman who loves to shop. Similar with Rebecca, her mom tends to buy something which is not necessary but not in high
quality. She usually buys something because she wants it, just like Rebecca. It is the reason why Rebecca’s mother can be seen as a person who influences
Rebecca’s shopaholic.
C. The Influence of Society toward CBD
After knowing the characteristics of Rebecca as the main character and identifying the society around her, the writer complete this analysis by showing
the enhancement of the society toward Rebecca’s characteristics that are seen as
Compulsive Buying Disorder CBD sufferer. In other words, this part provides the answer to the third question.
Rebecca Bloomwood is the main character who is characterized as a CBD sufferer. Having a hobby to do shopping makes her addicted to that hobby.
According to Rosenberg and Feeder, behavioral addiction is a condition that people have when they cannot control to engage with their wants. It is one of the
psychological problems in the mental illness. The writer said that Rebecca has psychological problem according to her addiction to do shopping. Also her hobby
causes her to get financial problems. CBD is characterized by someone who is addicted to buy something in
order to release his or her desire. However, this kind of habit makes a distress in someone’s mind. Rebecca’s hobby is also known as the reason that causes her into
a distress. According to the book of Behavioral Addiction, CBD has some characteristics, such as Salience, Tolerance, Withdrawal Symptoms, and Conflict.
Rebecca has those characteristic as a CBD. Her characterization as a shopaholic also shows her characteristic as CBD sufferer.
Based on the analysis about the characteristics of Rebecca Bloomwood, Rebecca is considered as a shopaholic, self-justification, and self-seeking. In this
part of the analysis, the writer provides Rebecca’s behavioral addiction that is affected by the social surroundings. Rebecca is surrounded by society that
unconsciously enhances her shopping hobby. The enhancement of the society makes her shopping hobby becomes behavioral addiction that is also called as
