Hard Worker The Description of Miss Prym’s Characteristics

27 Miss Prym’s curiosity makes her become a smart person. She does not need to spend a lot of money to satisfy her thirst of knowledge because she can get it without paying. She gets a lot of insight after reading some books. At first she doubted whether to share anything more with this man who was her enemy. But then she remembered a book on a Japanese martial arts, she always read any books left behind by hotel guests, no matter what the books were about, because she didn’t want to spend her own money buying them p.59. From the text above, it can be concluded that Miss Prym is a curious person. Her curiosity improves her knowledge. She uses her knowledge whenever she is facing a problem. It is analyzed by Murphy’s methods of characterization. It is derived from Miss Prym’s manner. Miss Prym is still young, so she has many curiosities in her life. Whenever she meets with the Stranger, she is not afraid to follow what Stranger’s want. Her curiosity is bigger than her fear. She had read many stories about young woman who decide go into the forest with a Stranger, only to vanish without trace. For a moment she was afraid, but her fear was quickly replaced by a desire for adventure… p.9. The text above proves that Miss Prym is a curious person. She wants to know what Stranger’s purpose is. It is analyzed by Murphy’s methods of characterization. It is derived from her thought. “Why did you want to show me this?” she asked. He didn’t respond. “Who are you exactly? And what are you doing here? Why did you show me this, knowing I could go and tell everyone what’s hidden here on the mountain?” p. 10. The text above also proves that Miss Prym is a curious person, she is interested with the Stranger. She has to know what the Stranger wants. It is 28 analyzed by Murphy’s methods of characterization. It is derived from Miss Prym reaction.

4.1.7 Ambitious

Miss Prym is an orphan and she is still young. She has a lot of dreams to be fulfilled. Her childhood was not happy, because she does not know who her father was and she lost her mother when she was born. She dreams to study out of Viscos, but eventually she is only a barmaid. She hopes to meet a guy who loves her and bring her out of Viscos. She is very ambitious to leave Viscos. “She was holding her dream in her hands, the thing she had always longed for, and which a miracle had set before her. Here was the opportunity to free herself from all those identical days and nights in Viscos and from the endless going back and forth to the hotel where she had worked since she was eighteen, from the yearly visits of all those friends whose families had sent them away to study and make something of themselves, from all the absence she had long since grown used to, from the men who arrived promising her the world and left the next day without even a goodbye, from all the farewells and non farewells to which she had long become accustomed” p. 30. From the text above it shows that Miss Prym has an ambitious to leave Viscos. So, when the Stranger offering to her bars of gold to barter with a life of Viscos, she hesitates no more. She will do everything to make her dreams come true. She is accepting the wager without hesitation. It is analyzed by Murphy’s methods of characterization. It is derived from the thought of Miss Prym. “Every day was another day spent waiting. Every night was a night when she might meet someone who would recognize her true worth. Every man she took to her bed was the hope of leaving Viscos the following morning, never again to see those three streets, those stone houses with their slate roofs, the church with its cemetery beside it, the hotel selling local handicrafts that took months to make and were sold for the same price as mass-produced goods.” p. 31