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characters’ characteristics are as follows:
1. Sophie’s Characteristics a. A Dreamer
From the novel, it is considered that Sophie is a dreamer because she always dreams about happiness, pleasure, and popularity. In the story of the novel, she
always dreams to have a wonderful future life, a great work, and she also dreams to be popular that everyone will turn their head on her. Those can be known from what
Sophie thought and said and also from what other characters said. When she was a child, Sophie lived in a wealthy family in which her mother
married a rich man. From the marriage, Sophie got a stepbrother named Marcus who had been her best friend. In her puberty, she used to play game called “If I were You”
with her friends, Natasha, Marcus, and Andy who later became her boyfriend. There, Sophie stated her dream of marriage.
“…., then you might as well all know that I plan a huge wedding on midsummer’s eve in Betterton church followed by a massive reception in the
Betterton arboretum,” Sophie said. “As many people as possible. A band. Loads of food. Everyone legless. And a photographer from Tatler.” 3
That was Sophie’s dream of her future marriage when she was a teenager and that still became her dream even when she had grown up. Being adult, Sophie dreams to
have not only a great wedding party, but also a happy family with her beloved boyfriend.
“…., as she could remember she had wanted to get married, hold cozy dinner parties, have babies and create the perfect family life she had never had. She
still would do that, everything would still come out all right. It had to.” 92 40
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But then Sophie had to leave all her enjoyable life after her mother had divorced from her rich stepfather. As her mother got divorced, Sophie and her mother
had to provide their life by own. Since then, Sophie lost her opportunity to get better education and job. She had to bury her desire that she wanted to be one of the Oxford
University students like Natasha was instead of just being a student of Betterton Secretarial Ladies’ College in her small town. Even when both of them had graduated
from their study, Natasha who had graduated from Oxford University, and Sophie who had graduated from her secretarial college, and then they met in London to
continue their life and find a job, Sophie still had to lose her fortune to get a great job. For her pity, she only got a plain job as an administrative staff in a publisher named
Daily Post . Sophie always dreams to get a great job to work as an actress as Natasha
did who had a job as head of drama for the most successful independent TV Company in Britain.
“But when she was fifteen, she went to an agency, who told her that lovely as she was, at five foot six she simply wasn’t tall enough. That dream shattered,
she vaguely dabbled in the idea of acting, but when she auditioned for drama school they told her she had no talent at all.” 40
And as her best friend, Natasha knows that Sophie dreams of being popular. She is undoubtfully sure that Sophie is fond of being interviewed and appearing in famous
publisher, magazine, and TV. “When we were at school, she always used to moan about what a dump it was
and why did we have to hang out with boys from the comprehensive rather than the boys from Eton where Marcus went. She’s always wanted to be posh
and now she is.” 460
As many people dream of what life they want to reach, Sophie also has a
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