based on their action, thought, and feeling. The psychological approach enabled the writer to know deeply about one’s character and the effects of the absence of
love towards the main characters’ behavior. The psychological approach also helped the writer to reveal the issue of the study discussed since it views a literary
work based on the psychological interpretation.
C. Method of the Study
In this study, the writer used library research in collecting the data. The library research method was used to find as much as possible information. The
writer referred to some books that were related to the short stories and the topic of the study. Besides, the writer also searched for other related information from the
internet. The data is divided into two categories. They are the primary data and the
secondary data. The three short stories discussed, which obtained from the book entitled Fiction 50, An Introduction to the Short Story by James H. Pickering, are
considered as the primary data. For the secondary data, the writer used the books which can support the study based on the problem to be analyzed.
There were some steps the writer used in writing the study and answering the questions in the problem formulation. First of all, the writer read the book named
Fiction 50, An Introduction to the Short Story by James Pickering. From that book, the writer read some interesting short stories, and then the writer found the
three short stories that had similar ideas. Those three stories were The Darling by
Anton Chekhov, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, and The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence.
The writer was interested in the problem existed in those short stories and tried to analyze those short stories. The writer decided to use three short stories to
make the result of the study more accurate. The writer decided to discuss about the influence of the absence of love towards the main characters’ behavior.
The second step was gathering information about the literary works from related literature books. From those books, the writer found some information
about the definition of character and characterization would be used to analyze the main characters.
The third step was analyzing the three short stories by focusing the point of view using the psychological approach. The psychological approach and theory
were used to analyze the main characters and made the analysis to answer the problems formulated in this study.
The fourth step was looking for and reading books on psychology, especially to find the theory of human needs, deprivation of love, death and loss, coping
stress, adjustment mechanism, and symptoms of non-normal, which supported the analysis of the problems formulated. The writer also used the information from
the internet as additional sources for the study. In the last step, the writer answered two problems formulated in chapter one,
and then made a conclusion based on the analysis of the study by comparing the writer’s own analysis with the theory of literature and the theory of psychology.
