how she really loves and wants her mother much. She realizes how much her mother loves her father. She finds that her accusation to her mother about her mother’s affair
with Father Dominic is totally wrong. The novel proves that Nelle’s silence is for the sake of her daughter’s
goodness. Unfortunately, she does not realize that her silence keeps Jessie in her guilty feeling.
4.1.2 Hugh Jessie’s Husband
4.1.2.1 Responsible
This character is analyzed by using the theory of character as seen by others. Jessie, who plays as other characters, leads the reader to have a picture about
Hugh. For Jessie, Hugh is a very good man. She feels so lucky to have Hugh as her husband, a very dependable husband. He works for the family, he gives Jessie
a very nice daughter, he knows how to cook and above all he is handsome. It would take million pages to describe how perfect Hugh is. People would be
gladly saying that Jessie is the luckiest wife in the world, Hugh really loves Jessie. However, those perfections make Jessie live in a very ordinary life. She
feels that everything is set and she cannot do anything that makes her different from others.
Hugh is definitely a handsome husband, the older he is the more handsome he becomes. Even Jessie feels jealous at him.
Instead I found myself staring at him. People were always staring at Hugh-in the restaurant, theater lines, and bookstore aisles. I would
catch them stealing glimpses, mostly women. His hair and eyes had that rich autumn coloring that reminds you of cornucopias and
Indian corn, and he had a beautiful cleft in the center of his chin p. 25
As a husband, Hugh has already given a good role for the family. He earns money for his family. Moreover, he loves her daughter very much. They are as close
as friend, even Dee wove a bracelet for him and he wears it. Furthermore, He likes keeping things that have memory about people he loves. He keeps all those things in
his drawer. It shows that Hugh is a loveable person. He would give his deep attention to people he loves. Moreover, it is kind a rare for a man to keep memorable thing in
his drawer. He is considered as man who shows his affection to his family. ‘….., while putting away the laundry. I came upon Hugh’s jewelry
case in the back of his underwear drawer. Maybe I shouldn’t have, but I at on the bed and went through it. It held all Dee’s baby teeth,
tiny and yellowed like popcorn kernels, and several drawings she’d done on his prescription pad. There was his father’s Pearl Harbor
pin, his grandfather’s pocket watch, four pairs of cuff links I’d bought him for various anniversaries….p.28
4.1.2.2 Caring
A character can be analyzed from reaction to other people. This character is analyzed from Hugh’s reaction toward his wife and his family. Hugh is a very caring
character. He cares not only his family but also his wife’s family. Even, he would not be sorry to cancel all his appointment in order to put attention to her wife. Hugh
would prepare all the things that Jessie needs. He also knows what he should do when Jessie’s emotion is uncontrolled.
When I came downstairs, 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 are not going to throw up again. Trust me.’ Whenever a crisis of any kind
appeared, Hugh made these great big breakfasts. He seemed to believe in their power to revive us. p.24
Hugh very concerns to his wife because everything seems to have already
been done by him. She does not have to think about her journey to the island, how PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
she will go and who will take her to the airport. Sometimes Hugh’s affection is really amazing for Jessie, but this treatment is sometimes too much for Jessie. She feels not
free because of Hugh treatment. Therefore, Jessie needs something to excite herself. Before coming downstairs, he’d booked me a one-way ticket to Charleston and
arranged to cancel his early afternoon patients so he can drive me to the airport p.24
Considering Hugh’s attention to Jessie, it is proven that Jessie is being spoiled by her husband. Therefore, Jessie insists that she needs something to alter her
life. Hugh puts too much attention to her and it is bothering her. As I descended the stairs, the years between us seemed accumulated everywhere, filling the house, and it
seemed strange to me, how love and habit blurred so thoroughly to make a life. p.34
His love to Jessie is above all things in the world. He could even cry for Jessie. The fact that Jessie has an affair with a monk leaves a very deep scar in Hugh.
Hugh is known as a very patient and strong husband. However, there is a condition when Jessie’s mistakes change him into someone who is weak and impatient.
However, he is trying to handle his condition. She went on calling him for unbearable amount of time. When she
finally left, tears shot up behind his eyes. He sat on one of the twin beds, trying to choke down the urge to cry. He wouldn’t have Jessie
hearing him cry. He needed to get hold of himself. p. 331
Although Hugh is considered as a wonderful man, still, he cries for his wife’s leaving. The good thing is he would never let his wife know if he is crying. He is
crying alone, he keeps and holds all his emotion alone. He would never let other people feel his sadness. We can analyze it by using his reaction when he faces his
marriage problem. Hugh cries loudly alone in a room, it describes his reaction toward PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
