has been tricked by a dirty lawyer who takes the biggest portion of the insurance payment. She also wants to be a lawyer to protect environment.
4.2 Darby Shaw’s Conflicts and Their Resolutions
Perrine 1972: 44 describes conflict as “a clash of action, ideas, desire, or wills between two individual and people in the society that can include,
physical, mental, emotional, or moral”. While Kalish 1996: 450 states that “conflict is a type of stress as a result of two or more different needs. The
satisfaction of one need leads to the non satisfaction of another need, or the satisfaction of one need brings unpleasant consequences”. Other experts,
Worchel and Cooper divide conflict into two kinds, intrapersonal conflict and interpersonal conflict. Intrapersonal conflict is a conflict that arises within one
character or by him or herself. Whereas, interpersonal conflict is a conflict that arises between the characters with the power outside the character. In this part, I
describe some conflicts which are experienced by Darby Shaw. The explanation will be divided into two parts: her intra-personal conflicts and her interpersonal
conflict
4.2.1 Intra-personal conflicts
In this novel, Darby Shaw experiences some intra-personal conflicts. Worchel and Cooper 1979: 460 define intra-personal conflict as a conflict that
arises within one character or by him or herself. Next, the conflicts experienced by Darby Shaw. They are conflicts on believing in Thomas Callahan’s death, on
finding the explanation of the car explosion, in believing Grantham and in solving the case. These conflicts are analyzed using Worchel and Cooper’s
theory of intra-personal conflict 1979: 460.
4.2.1.1 Believing in Thomas Callahan’s Death
The first
intra-personal conflict is when she sees her lover, Professor Callahan, die of a car explosion. Darby Shaw experiences intra-personal conflict
because she cannot receive that her lover and also her lecturer, Professor Callahan is dead. At that time, they are eating in a restaurant. After they finish
the diner they go home. When Callahan gets into his car and turn the engine on, suddenly the car explodes and burns him alive. The fire burns the car and the
explosion makes the car flip and land upside down. The explosion knocked her to the sidewalk. She landed on all fours, face
down, stunned for a second, then immediately aware of the heat and the tinny pieces of fiery debris falling in the street. The Porsche flipped in a
perfect violent somersault and landed upside down p.124
The explosion also makes Darby fall on the pavement. Her head fall on the bumper of another car and makes her faint. The explosion makes people
nearby come up into the street. They want to know what is going on. Somebody helps Darby and drags her to the pavement and gives her a cold cloth on her
forehead. Darby keeps asking about Callahan. She usually calls him Thomas. She
wants to run toward the burning car but the heat stops her, and she only screams with hands over her mouth.
