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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS

Based on what is stated in the problem formulation, this analysis part is devided in to two subchapters. The first part discusses the sexual pattern of Otoko seen from her characterization. The second part discusses the causal factors that caused Otoko’s homosexuality.

A. Otoko’s Sexual Patterns

There is only one character disscused in this study named Otoko. Abrams stated that there are two kind of character in the story based on its importance in the story, major and minor character. Based on his theory, Otoko is the main character in the novel. Otoko was substantially involved in the main action as well as becoming the central and the most important in the story Abrams, 1999:20. The story was focused on the character named Ueno Otoko who experienced complexity of her life thus affected her sexual pattern. Based on the internal complexity, as Laurence Perrine said in his book 1978: 71, Otoko is a dynamic character who experienced changes from the begining to the end of the story. Otoko’s sexual pattern changed at her adulthood. She started as a heterosexual person at her childhood then became a homosexual person at her adulthood. 35 Further, to intepret the change of Otoko’s sexual pattern seen from the characterization, Murphy’s nine ways of characterization will be used. They are personal description, character as seen by another, speech, past life, conversation with others, reactions, thoughts, direct comment of the author, and mannerism. As it had been explained, Otoko’s sexual pattern was devided into two, heterosexual and homosexual. Back to the definition of the term homosexuality, it is sexual behavior or sexual relationship between individuals of the same sex. Otoko was a hetero sexual person when she was young, then she shifted into homosexual in her adulthood. 1. A Heterosexual Person Otoko had a relationship with a man when she was young. The story began with the desire of Otoko’s past lover named Mr. Oki Toshio to meet her when he was in his middle age after twenty four years past. Oki’s desire awoke his memory of Otoko and their love story. That had come to mind again this year end, and he had impulsively decided to go to Kyoto. He had also been stirred by a defiant wish to see Ueno Otoko again after all these years, and to listen to the bells with her Kawabata, 1996:4. The theory of characterization by Murphy was applied. According to the theory, the quotation above was direct comment from the author and past life. It was a direct comment from the author to describe Oki’s feeling and thought about his will to see Otoko. It also showed that Otoko was not a homosexual from the first place. Oki used