CHAPTER 4 ANALYSIS
This chapter analyzes the minor characters’ personality and Jessie’s personality development which are described in the novel. The first analysis will be
the minor characters that influence Jessie’s personality development. Furthermore, it will also analyze Jessie’s personality development.
4.1 The Minor Characters’ Personalities
There is a factor that influences Jessie’s personality development which is minor characters. Minor characters are characters which appear as the complement of
the story. Therefore, in this study I would use Murphy’s theory of characterization. This theory is used to analyze each minor character’s character.
Jessie lives with her beloved husband and her only daughter. Jessie’s friends describe Jessie’s family as a perfect family. She has a handsome, kind and
dependable husband and an amazing daughter.
Jessie’s family is described as a family that can give Jessie happiness and composure.
When I came down stairs, Hugh was making breakfast. I heard the hiss of Jimmy Dean Sausage before I got to the kitchen. ‘I’m not
hungry,’ I told him. ‘But you need to eat,’ he said. ‘You’re not going to throw up again, Trust me.’ p. 24
Before coming downstairs, he’d booked me a one-way ticket to Charleston and arranges to cancel his early- afternoon patients so he
could drive me to the airport. p. 24 Jessie’s husband really cares about her and really loves her. She feels that
Hugh is very perfect and sometimes she is jealous at him. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Hugh’s aging seemed more benign, his handsomeness turning ripe, but it wasn’t that so much as the combination of intelligence and
kindnesses in his face that drew people. I had captured me back in the beginning. p. 25
He said, ‘I hardly know anything about you, but I love you’. And from that moment his commitment had been unyielding. Even now
he rarely went a day without telling me. p. 28
Not only her husband but also her daughter loves her. The way her daughter makes fun of her mother shows how she loves her. Jessie usually responds to her
daughter’s joke with another ridiculous joke. The ‘Rapuzel tower’. She’s always teasing me about it. ‘Hey, Mom,
When are you gonna let your hair down?’ that’s Dee being playful, being Dee, but we both knew what she meant- that I’d become to
stuffy and self- protected. p.8
This past Christmas, while she was home, I’d posted a Gary Larson cartoon on the refrigerator with a magnet that proclaimed me
WORLD’S GREATEST MOM. In it, two cows stood in their idyllic posture. One announced to the other, ‘I don’t care what they say, I’m
not content.’ I’d meant as a little joke, for Dee p. 8
Those conditions describe that Jessie is very lucky to have such a family, a lovely husband and a great daughter. However, Jessie still feels that she needs to do
something to excite her routine. On the other hand, she has a brother and a mother who live in the Egret Island.
Jessie was raised in a quite religious family. She has a brother named Mike; furthermore, Mike and she have a strong family relation. When she was a child, it
was only Mike who always accompanied her to play around. She also has a very nice
father, who always spoiled her. He named his boat after Jessie and he always had stories to tell to Jessie. He usually told the story and sat Jessie on his lap.
It is described in the novel after her father died everything turns to be unstable. The unstable condition also happens to her mother. Nelle’s attitude is weird. Nelle’s
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