Andrea Sachs Personality In The Devil Wears Prada By Laurent Weisberger.

ANDREA SACHS PERSONALITY

IN THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA BY LAURENT WEISBERGER

THESIS

Submited as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Gaining Bachelor Degree in English Departement Faculty of Arts and Humanities

State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya

By:

Aprillia Dwi Jayanti Reg. Number: A73213082

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF SUNAN AMPEL SURABAYA 2017

ABSTRACT

Jayanti, Aprillia Dwi. 2017. Andrea Sachs Personality in The Devil Wears Prada by Laurent Weisberger. Study Study Program of English, Sunan Ampel State Islamic University of Surabaya.

Supervisor : Sufi Ikrima S, M.Hum

This research discusses one of Laurent Weisberger’s works entitled The Devil Wears Prada. The story tells about Andrea Sachs who experience personality development which brings her from real-self into ideal-self. That can brings Andrea into self-actualized person and fully functioning person. There are two question in this thesis, the first is how Andrea shows herself as a self-actualization person. And the second is how Andrea’s self-actualization state helps her to be a good life as a fully functioning person.To solve the first research problem, some literary reviews concerning with theory self-concept by Carl Rogers is applied. It is conducted to find out the personality of Andrea Sachs. Self-concept theory is classified into a real-self and ideal-self. Then to achieve self-actualization Andrea must in stage of congruence which is to be similiar between real-self and ideal-self. To solve the second problem, the researcher uses theory from Carl Rogers about good life as a fully functioning person. Self-actualization and fully functioning are still has a correlation. It means that fully functioning is a high stage of good life view from Carl Rogers. The result of this research show that Andrea Sachs become a fully functioning person. She was through various problems in her life until she chooses being a congruence between real-self and ideal-self, and becomes self-actualization. Afterward, it brings her directly into good life as a fully functioning person.

INTISARI

Jayanti, Aprillia Dwi. 2017. Kepribadian Andrea Sachs dalam The Devil Wears Prada oleh Laurent Weisberger. Program Studi Sastra Inggris, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

Pembimbing : Sufi Ikrima S, M.Hum.

Skripsi ini membahas tentang salah satu novel karya Laurent Weisberger yang berjudul The Devil Wears Prada. Novel ini menceritakan tentang Andrea Sachs yang mengalami perkembangan kepribadian yang akan membawanya dari keadaan diri yang sebenarnya menjadi keadaan diri yang disesuaikan. Dapat mengarahkan Andrea menjadi aktualisi diri dan seseorang yang berfungsi secara penuh. Ada dua pertanyaan yang terdapat di skripsi, pertama mengenai bahagaimana Andrea menunjukkan dirinya menjadi aktualisasi diri. Dan pertanyaan kedua adalah bagaiamana keadaan aktualisasi diri Andrea membantunya untuk menjadi kehidupan yang lebih baik sebagai seseorang yang berfungsi secara penuh. Untuk memecahkan masalah pertama, beberapa telaah referensi berkaitan dengan teori konsep seseorang mengenai dirinya sendiri. Konsep ini dilakukan guna untuk mencari kepribadian pada Andrea Sachs. Konsep ini dikategorikan menjadi keadaan diri yang sebenarnya dan keadaan diri yang disesuaikan. Maka untuk mencapai pada aktualisasi diri carakter Andrea harus pada keadaan yang sesuai yaitu keadaan diri yang sebenarnya hampir menyerupai keadaan diri yang disesuaikan. Untuk memecahkan masalah yang kedua, memakai teori Carl Rogers mengenai kehidupan yang lebih baik sebagai seseorang yang berfungsi secara penuh. Aktualisasi diri dan seseorang yang berfungsi secara penuh masih memiliki korelasi, yang dimaksudkan bahwa berfungsinya seseorang secara penuh adalah tahapan yang lebih tinggi mengenai kehidupan yang lebih baik menurut Carl Rogers. Hasil dari penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Andrea Sachs mampu menjadi seseorang yang berfungsi secara penuh. Andrea juga mampu melewati berbagai masalah dalam hidupnya hingga dia memilih untuk kesesuaian antara keadaan diri yang sebenarnya dan keadaan diri yang disesuaikan, dan menjadi aktualisasi diri. Lalu, secara langsung membawakan Andrea pada kehidupan yang lebih baik sebagai seseorang yang berfungsi secara penuh.

Kata Kunci : Kepribadian, aktualisasi diri, seseorang yang berfungsi secara penuh

TABLE CONTENTS

Inside Cover Page ... i

Inside Title Page ... ii

Declaration Page ... iii

Dedication ... iv

Motto ... v

Advisor’s Approval Page ... vi

Examiner’s Approval Page ... vii

Acknoledgement ... viii

Table of Contents ... x

Abstract ... xii

Intisari ... xiii

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION ... 1

1.1Background of Study ... 1

1.2Statement of Problem ... 3

1.3Objective of the Study ... 4

1.4Scope and Limitation ... 4

1.5Significance of the Study ... 4

1.6Method of the Study ... 5

1.7Definition of Key Term ... 7

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ... 7

2.1 Theoretical Framework ... 7

2.1.1 Carl Rogers Personality Theory ... 8

• Congruence and Incongruence ... 11

2.1.2 Fully Functioning Theory ... 13

• An Increasing Openess to Experience ... 14

• Incresingly Existential Living ... 15

• An Increasing trust in His Organism ... 16

• The Process of Functioning More Fully ... 17

2.2 Review of Previous Study ... 18

CHAPTER III ANALYSIS ... 20

3.1 Andrea’s Personality as a Self-actualization Person ... 20

• Andrea Sachs Real-self or Self-image ... 22

• Andrea Sachs Ideal-self ... 27

• Congruence and Incongruence ... 36

3.2 Andrea’s Fully Functioning Person ... 39

• An Increasing Openess to Experience ... 40

• Incresingly Existential Living ... 41

• An Increasing trust in His Organism ... 44

• The Process of Functioning More Fully ... 44

CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 46

WORKS CITED ... 49

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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study

Literature is an expression and imagination which contains psychological

aspect in human life. Beside that, psychology deals with the study of observable

patterns of human’s behaviour. Psychological approach is considered important to

be used in the research of literature (Minderop 5). Gillespie states that the

psychology and literature is closely related field of human inquiry. The author

uses psychological insights to inform their art and psychologists use literature to

help their research into human behavior and even readers can do the same (43).

Modern psychoology is lagerly developed in the seventeenth century,

during the smashing triumphs of the natural philosopher in the field of mechanics,

that is one of the great moment of literary (Abrams 159). Another statement of

Abrams is the psychology of art has its origin theories in general begins to think

of the artist’s mind as interposed between the world of sense and the world of art,

and to attribute the conspicuous different between art and reality. So, modern

psychology emphasizes and helps people to look for the personal identity and

personality peoblem solving (156).

It is well known that literature is an important source of inspiration for the

science of psychology which tries to explain humans, emotions, behaviors and

mental processes from a scientific prespective (Holland 34). According to

Holland, psychology has played a significant aspect in literature because it

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This study uses Laurent Weisberger’s novel The Devil Wears Prada

because the researcher feels the story that can involve people emotionally in the

character’s life. Another that researcher interest analyze the main character,

Andrea Sachs. A brave young girl can makes a big decision in her life to make her

life being free rather than stay working as a Miranda Priestly personal assistant in

Runway magazine.

The Devil Wears Prada is a novel written by Lauren Weisberger. This novel published on 2003 first published then second published on 2006. By

January 2007, Lauren Weisberger’s The Devil wears Prada was the second most

borrowed book in U.S. libraries (The Book Most Borrowed 176) and the eight

best-selling book (Blais 1). Moreover, by December 2006, it became the basis for

the film with the same title and had already grossed $306.3 at the box office

(Stanley 18). The film stars the famous actresses Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs

and Meryl Streep a Miranda Priestly.

The Devil Wears Prada is a bestselling novel by Lauren Weisberger about a young woman who is hired as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion

magazine editor. The main character in the novel is Andrea Sachs. Andrea’s

character in Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada represents good life or fully

functioning person. The portrayal life of Andrea Sach show that she become

struggle in her life while many problems comes in her life. Then she decided

choose to become real-self the truly her rather than be a ideal-self. She belief

become the truly of her personality also bring her to reach dream, in fact show at

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Andrea Sachs, a twenty-three year old girl working as a personal assistant

in Runway magazine, fashion magazine. Her boss called Miranda Priestly. Andrea

has beautiful life, family who always love and support her, friend, and boyfriend.

But since Andrea working as personal assistant of Miranda, she lost many times

for her family, friend, boyfriend. She spend all day with working. However, she

commits to struggle with her job because she knows that this job will be a great

bridge to her dream job. Besides, it is the job that millions girls would die for it.

Unfortunately, her obsession to reach her dream makes her too busy with her job

and starts to lose her family, friends, and boyfriends. In the end, she decides to

save her life and relationship by leaving her job.

Related with background of the study that have mentioned, the researcher

wants to analyze about Andrea Sachs’s personality character in novel The Devil

Wears Prada using Carl Rogers personality theory. The way Andrea gets her life become self-actualization and good life or fully functioning person.

1.2 Statement of Problems

According to the focus of the researcher, the writer tries to identify the

problem by following questions:

1.2.1 How does Andrea shows herself as a self-actualization person?

1.2.2 How does Andrea’s self-actualization state help her to be a good

life as a fully functioning person?

1.3 Objective of the Study

Based on statement problem above, the writer would like to classify the

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1.3.1 To explain the way Andrea Sach show her personality become

real-self or ideal-self so it makes her become self-actualization.

1.3.2 To explain how Andrea self-actualization state helps her become a

good life or fully functioning person.

1.4 Scope and Limitation of the Study

The researcher discusses about Andrea Sach state become good life or

fully functioning person and characterization of Andrea Sachs in The Devil Wears

Prada novel. The researcher uses Lauren Weisberger’s novel untitled The Devil Wears Prada published in 2003. This analysis explains Andrea Sachs personality, self-actualization and fully functioning person based on Carl Roger’s theory.

1.5 Significance of the Study

Through this research, the researcher hopes the result has benefit for

Aprillia Dwi Jayati, as the researcher, and anybody who reads this research. In

detail, it is hope the result of the study can be beneficial to student in major

English Literature, who interested psychoanalysis and personaliy theory of Carl

Roger. For common reader, the researcher hopes the reader understand their life

which is become a self-actualization or fully functioning person. The researcher

wants to common reader understand that every persons has a unique personality

and believe inside your self. Inner personality will deliver us to be a truly

organism and self confidence.

1.6 Method of the Study

This research methodology comprises by many aspects such as research

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1.6.1 Research Design

In doing this research, the researcher collects and looks for the data

using library research that can support the objective of the study. Using

library research, the study analyzes The Devil Wears Prada novel and any

related books from libraries or sources which the data is collected. By

library research, the researcher tries to get valid description for the

statement of problems based on Andrea Sach’s personality in The Devil

Wears Prada novel by Lauren Weisberger. 1.6.2 Source of Data

The researcher uses source of data as material in completing the

research. The data are divided into two; primary and secondary data. First,

the primary data sources is novel by Lauren Weisberger untitled The Devil

Wears Prada published in 2003. The data are taken by quoting the phrases, paragraph, and dialogues in the novel related to Andrea’s

character that shows herself as a fully functioning person and be

self-actualization person. The secondary data source is taken from books,

internet sources that related Carl Roger theory of personality to support

this research.

1.6.3 Method of Data Collecting

Data is very important aspect in all of studies because the data is

very influential in the truth of study. Therefore, this study provides some

steps in the following data collecting:

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2) Reading the novel to get the complete and well understanding on

the whole story.

3) Selecting some references to support this study.

4) Selecting and collecting the data in form of narration and

conversation from the novel related to Andrea’s character that shows

herself as a fully functioning person and how her self-actualization state

helps her to be a fully functioning person.

1.6.4 Method of Data Analysis

After collecting data, this study analyzes the data by using personality of

psychoanalysis by Carl Roger theory. The study gives some steps to

analyze the data in following number:

1) Gather a few paragraph, sentences or phrases that relate to the topic

in this study with intensive reading the whole story in the novel.

2) Analyze the data collected based on statement problem from the

novel. Then, each point is analyzed using psychology theory which refers

to the objectives of the study.

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CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Theoretical Framework

This chapter focuses on Carl Rogers theory to help finding Andrea’s self-actualization state to reach her fully functioning state or good life. Therefore, researcher provides the self-concept of Carl Rogers personality theory. The researcher uses psychology theory concern to personality theory. Then the researcher focuses on humanistic aspect which is one of personality approaches. Besides explaining about Carl Rogers personality theory as the main theory, the researcher is also using New Criticim theory, focused on character and

characterization to analyze Andrea Sachs as the main character of The Devil Wears Prada novel.

Rogers noted that ‘the good life is a process not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination’ (187). For this analysis, the application of those theories helps the writers make vivid and logical analysis so the researcher can achieve the purpose of the study.

The first of the modern personality theories was developed by Sigmund Freud and is known as psychoanalytic theory. The psychiatric practice of this theory is called psychoanalysis (James). Personality theory is the spirit of psychology, because the personality itself became the essence of psychology (Zaviera 24). Cervone and Pervin adds that personality psychology, as he called it, concerned with identifying the important individual differences (29).

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In conclusion, personality theory is a main study in psychology, because the key point of personality is study about human psyche or personality traits.

Moreover, John believes that individuals are important and unique. From the individualist perspective, ‘person’ is the very subject matter of personality psychology (4). So in psychology view, every human is difference one with another one, each of them has their own personality. Another statement stated that personality is not just any individual difference but personality is about individual reflect the preferences and biases of an underlying motivational system. Along any dimension or within any dynamic that we would call personality, individuals have motivated preferences and biases for what they see or believe, what they want to have, how they want to get these desired states of being, and how they want to deal with failures to get them (John et,al 183).

There are six different approaches to studying personality. The major theories include the psychodynamic, neo-Freudian, behaviorist, humanistic, biological, trait or dispositional, and cultural prespectives (Schultz and Schultz 55). In this study the researcher focuses on humanistic approach by Carl Roger. Humanistic psychologists such as Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers, believed that people strive to become self-actualized depend of figure themself.

2.1.1 Carl Rogers Personality Theory

Carl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987) who developed an influential theory of personality centered on the idea of self-concept. Rogers’s theory is quite often known as self-theory. Rogers also the one of first therapist to focus on `a person-centered therapy’ approach to help clients with the process self-discovery.

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Rogers, like Maslow, is just as interested in describing the healthy person (James 236). It means Rogers sees every human is basically good or healthy. In other words, he sees every human mental health as the normal progression of life and he sees mental illness, criminality, and other human problems, as distortions of that natural tendency.

Rogers personality theory is basically focusing on the notion of self or self-concept. The self-concept is defined in a wide way as the individual`s tendency to act in ways which actualize himself, lead to his differentiation and a group of experiences, accordingly, are differentiated and symbolized in conscious awareness as self experiences, the sum of which establishes the individual`s self concept (Ahmad and Tekke 29).

Rogers stated that healthy persons are individuals who can approve their experiences into their self-concept. Rogers describe self concept is an experience aspect of fenomologis (Cervone and Pervine 210). Experience of fenomologis is one aspect of person experience in this world, that is one of

conscious experiences of ourselves. Rogers classified into two system; real-self or self-image and ideal-self (Cervone and Pervine 211).

• Real-self or self-image

Real-self (self-image) includes the influence of human body image intrinsically. How a person see inside his or her selves, which is very important to good psychological health. In other words, ourselves (he or she) deal to receive as a beautiful or ugly, good or bad person. Self-image has directly an effect on how a person feels, things and acts in the world. Rogers identified the ‘real self’ as

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initiated by the actualizing tendency, follows organismic valuing, needs and receives positive regard and self-regard (Rogers 1954, 163). It is described that every person will be successful, if everything continues well for it. Rogers believed that a person has real self. The real self of course is related to inner personality. It is the self that feels most true to what and who we really are. It may not be perfect, but it`s the part of us that feels most real (Robins et,al 568).

• Ideal-self

An ideal self, briefly represents person who is striving to achieve their goals or ideals. In other words, it is persons dynamic ambitions and goals. By ideal self, Rogers is suggesting something not real, something that is always out of person reach, the standard a person cannot meet (qtd Ahmad and Tekke 31).

A wide gap between the ideal self and the self-image indicates

incongruence and an unhealthy personality (Feist and Feist 316). Rogers

highlighted free choice is dominant in his personality theory. It refers individuals are responsible for what happens to them and stop attributing their actions from outsides forces (Derlega et, al 132). Cervone and Pervin adds ideal-self is an individual circumstances that individuals want to see themselves or something individual wants to achieve it (211).

• Congruence and Incongruence

Incongruence is a discrepancy between the actual experience of the organism and the self-picture of the individual insofar as it represents that experience (McLeod para.14). Experience incongruence indicates a basic

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of the totality of their experience is unacceptable to them and is denied or distorted in the self-image.

When incongruence occurs, Rogers (1956, 168) assumed that anxiety is the result of a discrepancy between experience and the perception of the self. Then, a person tends to engage in defensive process. In this regard, defensive act occurs due to that a person experiences threatening. In fact, Rogers argued that defensive act is not against driving forces in the id, against ‘a loss of a consistent, integrated sense of the self’ (Cervone & Pervin 210).

Where a person’s ideal self and actual experience are consistent or very similar, a state of congruence exists. There is congruence between the true self and experience, and the person is psychologically healthy. Carl Rogers believed that for a person to achieve self-actualization they must be in a state of

congruence (Ahmad and Tekke 33). The closer a person self-image and ideal-self is to each other, the more consistent or congruent and the higher their sense of self-worth.

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Like most other people, they are constantly exposed to new organismic experiences, but unlike most people, they accept these experiences into awareness, which contributes to their psychological growth. Stated Feist and Feist

congruence exists when a person’s truly inside them organism, they no wear mask, do not attempt to fake a pleasant facade, they do not fake anger, toughness, or ignorance, nor do they cover up feelings of joy, elation, or happiness. In addition, they are able to match feelings with awareness and both with honest expression (322).

2.1.2 Fully Functioning Theory

Rogers formulated his concept of the fully functioning person as well as his whole theory from his experience as a client-centred therapist. He views the meaning of good life as a fully functioning person based upon his experience in working with people (Rogers 1961,184). As mention above, a person who will achieve self-actualization they must be in state of congruence between real-self (self-imagine) and ideal-self. Based on Roger theory, that people who are able be self-actualized and that is not all of us, are called fully functioning persons.

Rogers believe that a person set their life into a good life is a hard steps. She or he must be struggle in life and deal with any risk to achieve a good life. ‘I have learned what the good life seems to be by observing and participating in the struggle of disturbed and troubled people to achieve that life’ (Rogers 1961, 185).

The good life is the process of movement in a direction which the human organism selects when it is inwardly free to move in any direction, and the general qualities of this selected direction appear to have a certain universality

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(Rogers 187). Good life or fully functioning person is a person who able to choose or move into a free human organism. Good life is a process of human movement, to setting their life become freedom.

To specify a good life, Rogers arrange it into four characteristic of the process of this process of movement. There are; an increasing openess to

experience, increasingly existential living, an increasing trust in his organism, and the process of functioning more fully.

• An Increasing Openess to Experience

In the first place, the process seems to involve an increasing openness to experience. People who wants reach their life into a good life they must brave to accepted both positive and negative emotions. Negative feelings are not denied, but worked through rather than resorting to ego defence mechanisms. It is polar opposite of defensiveness. Defensiveness is described as being the individual’s response to experiences which are perceived or anticipated as threatening, as incongruent with the individual’s existing picture of himself, or of himself in relationship to the world (Rogers 187).

If a person could be fully open to their personal experience, so every stimulus originating within personality must be equal in the environment then would be freely through the nervous system without being distorted by any defensive mechanism. So there is no need of the mechanism of ‘subception’ whereby the organism is forewarned of any experience threatening to the self (Rogers 188).

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As the result, the individual is becoming more able to listen to their self need, to experience that going on within their self. People are being open to their feelings of fear and pain. They are also more open to feelings of brave, tenderness, and awe. They are free to live from feelings subjectively and also free to be aware their feelings. It concern with Rogers who stated ‘he (client) is more able fully to live the experiences of his organism rather than shutting them out of awareness’ (Rogers 188).

• Increasingly Existential Living

A second characteristic of the process a good life is involving an increasing tendency to live fully in each moment. It is explicit for a person who was fully open to their new experience, so completely without defensiveness, and each moment realize a new experience.

One way of expressing the fluidity which is present in such existential living is to say that the self and personality emerge from experience, rather than experience being translated or twisted to fit preconceived self-structure (Rogers 188-189). It means that one becomes a participant and an observer of the ongoing process of organismic experience, rather than being control of it.

Such living in the moment means an absence of rigidity, of tight organization, of the imposition of structure on experience (Rogers 189). As Rogers stated, it means a maximum of adaptability. It is a tendency to move toward existential living which appears evident in people. It also involves discovering the structure of experience in the process of living which the new experience. To open one’s spirit to what is going on now and to discover in that

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present process whatever structure it appears to have is one of the qualities of the good life, the mature life (Rogers 189).

• An Increasing trust in His Organism

The third characteristic of the person who is living the process of good life appears to be an increasing trust in human organism as a means of arriving at the most satisfying behavior in each existential situation.

By Rogers research of client experience, he find that increasingly such individuals are able to trust their total organismic reaction to a new situation because they discover to an ever-increasing degree that if they are open to their experience, doing what ‘feels right’ proves to be a component and trustworthy guide to behavior which is truly satisfying ( Rogers 189). From statement above, people are feel their new experience as a new discovery. They believe their own organismic that they had. They had potential confidence to discover a new experience which is a negative or postive. At this stage people are truly being satisfied. Because they believe their own personality are able to control it.

People are being confidence with their experience. They do not feel fear again after doing a negative thing because they are more open experience and increasingly possible to trust their reactions. Consciously, people are trying to fix their bad or negative experience. If they ‘feel like’ expressing anger they do so and find that this comes out satisfactorily, because they are equally alive to all of their other desires for affection, affiliation, and relationship. People had own intuitive skill in finding behavioral solutions to complex and troubling human relationships. It is only afterward that they realize how surprisingly trustworthy

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their inner reactions have been in bringing about satisfactory behavior (Rogers 1961, 191).

• The Process of Functioning More Fully

For the last characteristic, Rogers describes the process of the good life into a more fully functioning person. People is more able to live fully with of all their feelings and reactions. It appears that the person who is psychologically free moves in the direction of becoming a more fully functioning person (Rogers 191).

He is more able to permit his total organism to function freely in all its complexity in selecting, from th e multitude of possibilities, that behavior which in this moment of time will be most generally and genuinely satisfying (Roger 191). People is able to put more trust in their organism in this functioning, not because it is infallible, but because people is be fully open to the consequences of each of his actions and correct them if they prove to be less satisfying.

People is more able to accept experience of all their feelings and is not feels afraid of any feelings. They are open to evidence from all sources, they are completely engaged in the process of being and becoming real of their-self. They are becoming a more fully functioning organisms, and because of the awareness of theirslef which flows freely in and through their experience, they are becoming more fully functioning person (Rogers 192).

2.1.2 New Criticism

New criticism is an approach which focuses on the text itself. It to find the meaning of a literary work. New criticism refuses to pay attention to the external factors such as author’s background, reader’s response, and another

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factor which not merely about the text of literary work. According to Tyson, the external factors such as author’s background cannot always be a guide to provide information to analyze a literary work (Tyson 136), because New Criticism only focus on the text. The validity of the text help meaning reasonable. Tyson stated that “Our goal is to use New Criticism to help enrich our reading of literary texts, to help us see and appreciate in new ways to create meaning” (150). Because analyzing New Criticism approach researcher works the meaning of the text.

1. Character

Characters are the representation of a person in a narrative work of art, such as novel, and drama. It is the imaginary people written on the fiction or drama. As readers, people often come to care, identify, and judge about fictional characters. In addition, characters in fiction can be conveniently classified as major and minor. (DiYanni 54). DiYanni also identifies characters into static and dynamic character.

• Major Character

DiYanni states that“Major character is an important figure at the center of the story’s action or theme”. It refers to the people who take part in most of the events to develop a story and resolve the conflicts in novel or drama (54).Major characters usually face some sort of obstacle, and they will be present throughout all, or almost all, of a story.

• Minor Character

Minor character is characters a person who has only few scenes in a story and they are supporting the role of the main character to make the story line completed.“Supporting the major character are one or more secondary or minor

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characters whose function is partly to illuminate the major characters." It explains that minor character is (DiYanni 54).

• Dynamic Character

The developing (or dynamic) character undergoes a permanent change in some aspect of character, personality, or outlook. It is a character that has changes and development of his or her behavior or purpose with her or his role in the story. Dynamic characters, on the other hand, exhibit some kind of change-of attitude, of purpose, of behavior as the story progress (DiYanni 55).

• Static Character

The same sort of person at the end of the story as at the beginning. Static character is a character that remains the same from the beginning of a work to the end of the story (DiYanni 55).

2. Characterization

Character and Characterization are inseparable. Characterization has function to show how the character is characterized or described in the story. It is the way of writers the way of the writer in describing and picturing the character in their literary work. According to DiYanni, Characterization is a representation of how imagined person who inhabits a story or called character behaves

throughout the story (54). Although character in a fiction is not real person, only a imaginary person who is created by the author to live the story, but they are the imitation of real human which have feature and characteristic.

The method of the characterization according to DiYanni uses narrative description with explicit judgment when the author tells explanation that from the

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beginning people know who he is or who she is or who is it? According to DiYanni (57) the techniques of the characterization can be divided into six ways, there are:

• Narrative summary without judgement

• Narrative description without implied or explicit judgement • Surface details of dress and physical appearance

• Character’s action — what they do

• Character’s speech — what they say (and how they say it) • Character’s consciousness — what they think and feel.

Of all six ways, the writer only uses 3 ways in this analysis: character’s action—what they do, character’s speech—what they say (and how they say it), character’s consciousness—what they think and feel. Those ways help the researcher analyze the Andrea character.

To sumarize, researcher applies theory of Carl Rogers as main theory, self-concept theory and fully functioning or good life theory. The researcher using self-concept theory of Rogers because to find out Andrea’s self-actualization. The researcher also applies new criticism theory but focus on character and

characterization as supporting theory to help analyze Andrea personality in The Devil Wears Prada novel.

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There are some previous studies which have been written. Those previous studies are from the same object, the novel untitled The Devil Wears Prada

written by Laurent Weisberger, as the researcher but from different perspective from another the researchers.

First, previous study has been written by Nora Rohwani Surahman untitled

Andrea Sach’s Struggles Against Exploitation and Alienation in Lauren Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada. Her study discusses about conveying exploitation and alienation practice in society that through the character of Andrea Sach. Nora focuses on Andrea’s character gets pressure from her boss, Miranda Priestly. The researcher also shows how exploitation and alienation happen in the society of the novel between staff and boss, Andrea and Miranda. The unbearable pressure she gets from Miranda Priestly finally makes her fight against it. She tries to go out of the oppressive circumstances. She struggles against alienation and exploitation.

Second study has been written by Yunindar Retno Putri untitled The Myth of Individual Freedom Reflected in the Novel “The Devil Wears Prada”. Her study discusses about American myth of individual freedom reflected at Andrea and Lily’s character. The myth of individual freedom encourages American people to be free in doing anything to pursue their dreams. However, the researcher found that Andrea’s character potrayed to challenge the mainstrem nsociety by becoming a carrier woman and ignoring her family finally realize that she is not the same as Miranda, her boss. She defends her spirit of individual freedom and makes a choice in her life which tends to go along with the

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mainstream society’s values. Then Lily’s character is also potrayed to challenge the mainstream society in defending her spirit of individual freedom. As an alcoholic her attitude is in contrast to the society’s values.

The third is Amanda Resy Prafitra untitled An Analysis on Andrea Sachs’ Girl Power Aspects and Women’s Dis/Empowerment in Weisberger’s Chick Lit The Devil Wears Prada. Amanda devided her research into two objectives. The first is to identify Andrea Sachs’ Girl Power aspects reflected in Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada and the second is to show how Girl Power empowers or disempowers Andrea Sachs in this novel.

The theory of feminism, postfeminism, and Girl Power become the bases of analysis employed in this research. Based on Amanda research, the character of Andrea match with girl power aspects; aspects of celebrating femininity, making individual choices, being independent can empower her to survive in her

workplace but Andrea Sachs’ Girl Power aspect of being confident can dis empower her life and relationship with her family, friends, and boyfriend.

Similar to the previous studies above, the researcher also main characters as a subject, Andrea Sachs. All of previous study above most of all research about

Andrea’s character as a individual person. Then the researcher is also interested to analyze Andrea’s character using Carl Rogers theory of Personality.

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CHAPTER III Andrea Sachs Personality

in The Devil Wears Prada _{Novel by Laurent Weisberger}

This chapter contains the analysis concerning with the main character Andrea Sachs. In the first part of the analyses, the researcher analyzes Andrea Sachs’s personality based on Carl Rogers theory, to know Andrea is being as a self-actualization person. In the second part, the researcher goes on the analysis of Andrea Sachs’s good life as a fully functioning person.

3.1 Andrea’s Personality as a Self-actualization Person The good life is a process not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination (Rogers 187). Based on Rogers concept of good life, the researcher found that in her way to get the good life, Andrea goes through development character. The end of story, Andrea believes the inner personality belongs to her organism is the way that can bring her to a good life as a fully functioning person.

In addition, Rogers are interested in describing the healthy person. Because Rogers sees every human is basically good or healthy, it means human mental health is the normal progression of life. Andrea indicate as a good or healthy person because the story described Andrea’s habitual action as a normal progression of human life. She always sleeps at night, eats when she feels hungry.

It was one o’clock on frigid winter afternoon, on my way to Tommy Hilfiger’s studio. And I was positively starving. I asked the driver to pull over at a deli and decided to eat sandwich since my croissant at seven this morning (Weisberger 46).

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From the quotation above, Andrea Sachs gets starving because she only ate croissant at seven in the morning. Then she asked the driver to pull over and buy a food. Eating is a normal progression of human life. Not only eating but also sleeping is classified as a normal progression of human life. ‘Just this once, I thought to myself, sinking into the warm blanket and try to sleep. I’m Runway girl now’ (Weisberger 64).

Rogers describes self concept is an experience aspect of fenomologis (Cervone and Pervine 210). Experience of fenomologis is one aspect of person experience in this world that is one of conscious experiences of ourselves. It show in Andrea’s self-experience, consciously working in Runway magazine although she does not understand about fashion but she believes this job is a prestige because everyone said to Andrea ‘a million girls would die for this job’.

Yeah, so it’s a fashion magazine and not something a little more interesting, but it’s a hell of a lot better to work at Runway than some horrible trade publication somewhere, right? The prestige of having Runway on my resume was sure to give me even more credibility when I eventually applied to work at The New Yorker than, say, having Popular Mechanics there. Besides, I’m sure a million girls would die for this job (Weisberger 19).

It shows from the quotation, Andrea Sachs has no interest in working for fashion magazine because fashion is the last thing she cares about. But she decides to challenge herself after Sharon, an employee in Runaway and Allison, Miranda Priestly’s senior assistant who will promote to other division say that working as Miranda Priestly’s assistant will open a big opportunity to work in other

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“You’re lucky to have such an awesome job! Before she could say it, I found my self mentally finishing the sentence- a million girls would die for it” (Weisberger 54).

Runway fashion magazine is a great place where we can see all fabulous fashion from head to toe and any branded fashion (clothes, bags, shoes, and accessories). Catching the signal of the way to her dreaming job so she decides work for it.

3.1.1 Andrea Sachs Real-self or Self-image

Andrea Sachs is a twenty-three year old girl from Avon, Connecticut, a small-town in America. Andrea is a fresh-graduate woman who tries to find a job in a big city like New York. She learns journalism when she is studying at Brown University and she has a desire to get a job in magazine publishing. She hopes that she can use her skill and write a good article. Then she is dreaming to be a journalist in The New Yorker.

One day, she has interview in Elias-Clark building office at Runway. She knows nothing about fashion. When she was in school, she just wore sweatpants, jeans for Saturday night, and ruffled puffiness for semiformal dances. She has a little interest in fashion. Fashion is not really important in her life. The day she goes to interview in Elias-Clark, Andrea sees every girl and men in the building looks so sexy and fashionable.

I knew nothing when I went for my first interview and stepped onto the infamous Elias-Clark elevators, quite lifts. I had never seen women with such radiant blond hair and never laid eyes on such beautiful men. They were perfectly toned but not too muscular and they showed off their lifelong dedication to gymwork in finely ribbed turtleneck ang tight leather pants. Their bags and shoes shouted Prada! Armani! Versace! and for women most of them, not me, ’02 stilettos’ (Weisberger 9-10).

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Although every employee in Elias-Clark building is so sexy and fashionable but Andrea is confident enough when she wears simple clothes, as usual as she ever wear it. ‘I washed down Advil with Pepto and manage to

assemble a jacket and pants that did not match and in no way created a suit, but at least they stayed put on my emaciated frame’ (Weisberger 13). Besides, she know she is not sexy and fasionable enough for working in fashion magazine. But she is still confident from dress that she always wears.

My clothes and my hair were wrong for sure, but more

glaringly out of place was my attitude. I didn’t know anything about fashion and I didn’t care. At all. And therefore, I had to have it. Besides, a million girls would die for this job

(Weisberger 21).

Another confidence of Andrea is when she put a natural make up when working as Miranda’s assistant. Before Andrea moves to New York and works in

Runaway Magazine, she does not really care with make up. She feels beautiful when she does not wear any make up in her face. She likes being natural.

There was no makeup on my face, and my jeans were dirty around the bottom from trudging through the city slush. But at the moment, I felt beautiful. Natural and cold and clean and crisp, I threw up open the front door and called out for my mother. It was the last time in my life I remember feeling so light (Weisberger 29).

Andrea Sachs shows her real-self or self-image, she perceive her body image intrinsically. She realizes that she is not beautiful or sexy compared to other employee at Runway magazine. But she believes, her body is beautiful with a natural make up, simple dress or clothes. It relates with Rogers concept of real-self (real-self-image) which says that it includes the influence of human body image

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intrinsically. In other words, ourselves (he or she) deal to receive as a beautiful or ugly, good or bad person.

Andrea has a beautiful family life, sometimes she always deliver an email or text to her mother and father while she is bussy. It is mention, Andrea was type an email to dad stated that she is so happy travelling in Europe. She spends more time with family life as like as attending thanksgiving party. ‘Thanksgiving was my favorite holiday, and this year I was set to enjoy it more than ever (Weisberger 73)’.

‘Dad I’m at Amsterdam now. I did Europe by train for a month, spending much more time on beaches than in museum. I’m going to Southeast Asia next week. But today I’m

spending at Amsterdam bye dad love you. Tell mom I’m so happy.’ I enjoy my tea and turn off my laptop. (Weisberger 10) Not only having a quality time with family but also Andrea is always spending time with Lily and Alex. Lily is Andrea best friend since eight grade. ‘We’d been best friend since eight grade, when I first saw Lily crying alone at a cafeteria table’ (Weisberger 83). Until now Andrea always loves Lily, because Lily always beside Andrea even when she is on her bad-day (working in Runway). ‘Lily was lying on the couch again, half-asleep. I hugged her good-bye’

(Weisberger 92).

After four weeks working as Miranda’s second assistant, Andrea is still dressing as comfortable as she thinks to wear it. She knows everyone dislike her appearance but Andrea does not care about their judgments. She is believes Miranda only needs her as a assistant such as ordering coffee, newspaper, reservation for lunch, and another tasks.

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I look directly into Jessica, a.k.a. Manicure Girl. She looked me both annoyed and panic-stricken.

“Andrea, are you aware that Miranda is on her way to the office?” she asked, looking me up and down.

“Sure am. I’ve got her newspaper right here and her water right here, and now I just need to get them back to her office. If you’ll excuse me ...”

“Andrea!” she called as I ran past her, an ice cube flying out of the glass and landing outside the art departementn.

“Rememeber to change your shoes!”

I stopped dead in my tracks and looked down. I was wering a pair of funky street sneaker, the kind that weren’t designed to do anything but I look cool ( Weisberger 103-104).

It shows from quotation above, Andrea stated ‘I look cool’ so she has confident personality although Jessica reminds her to change her shoes. She receives her body image intrinsically. Andrea true personality is a simple ordinary girl from Avon rather than as a sexy and fashionable Runway girl.

Besides that, Andrea always likes to eat. She does not really care about her body shapes, although Runway girls are skinny, as like as Emily, Allison, and Miranda. ‘Since I’d never seen so much as a picture of Miranda Priestly, I was shocked to see how skinny she was (Weisberger 20)’. Andrea ate big portion of meal while attending thanksgiving in Andrea’s parent house.

We gathered in the dining room and dug into massive meal that my mother had expertly ordered. Bagels and lox and cream cheese and whitefish and latkes all professionally arranged on rigid disposable serving platters, waiting to be transferred to my paper plates. (Weisberger 73)

Andrea looks exhausted after working for a week and no time for enjoy personal time. She also cancels her date with Alex. Unexpectedly, after Andrea arriving at her apartment, Alex is in there. So, they are talking each other. In the middle of their conversation, Alex was showing Andrea a big portion of burger

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and one extra-large fries. They are having a date in Andrea’s apartement with a big meal, fries, and red wine.

“So come here and eat!” he looked pleased and pulled open a bag, but we both coundn’t fit on the floor of my bedroom together. I though about eating in the living room but Kendra and Shanti together in front of TV.

“hold on, I have an idea,” he said and tiptoed to the kitchen. He dug into greasy bag and brought out two giant burger with everything and one extra-large fries. He’d remembered ketchup packets and tons of salts for me, and even napkins. I clapped I was so excited, although a quick visual of

disapointment of Miranda’s face apperead.

“I’m not done yet. Here check it out.” And out of his backpack came a fistful of tiny vanilla tea lights, a bottle of screw-top red wine, and two waxy paper cups.

“you are kidding,” I said softly, still not believing that he’d put all this together after I’d canceled our date “thank you, thank you, thank you” (Weisberger 70).

However in the middle of the story, Andrea changes her appearance. She decided to make over her looks. Andrea started to be like Runway girls. She wears a fashionable dress or clothes and make up her appearance. In the morning before work, Alex was startled with Andrea new appearance. It mention “This, Andy is what you should be wearing” because Andrea or Andy wears a Prada clothes to work. She begun to change her new appearance and replaced her unfashionable clothes.

I pushed aside my generic button-downs and ferreted out the tweedy Prada skirt, black Prada turtleneck, and midcalf lenght Prada.

“What’s this?” I’d asked, unzipping the garment bag

“This, Andy is what you should be wearing if you don’t want to get fired.” He smiled, but he wouldn’t look me in the eye. “I’m sorry?”

“Look, I just think you should know that your, uh, your look isn’t really going over well with everyone around here... (Weisberger 123).

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Andrea becomes a workaholic person. Andrea has conviction that she can pass a year as Miranda Priestley’s assistant so the opportunity to The New Yorker

will be open. However, she turns to be an obsessive worker. She lets herself to work hard. The way she dresses up shows that she is serious with her job. Although she dresses better than before, she never be certain to be confident to wear beautiful and fashionable clothes.

I lookin myself into a mirror and fix my mascara, I sucked in my breath realize I’m Runway girls now but I know it isn’t me. ‘I’m doin for my job’ (Weisberger 214).

One day in Paris, Miranda pushes Andrea working to hard. Finally, her consciousness arises when she loses so much time and energy for her job but Miranda never appreciates what she has done. She works hard every day. She loses her normal life as a human being. Then Andrea decided to quit

from her job. This condition is related with Robins stated that ‘ It may not be perfect, but it’s the part of us that feels most real (Robins et,al 568)’. If Andrea still stays working as Miranda assistant, she believes it not a part of her inner personality such as wearing fashionable clothes, glamorous stuffs, and put make-up on. Her truly organism is a simple girl to wear a sneakers, simple clothes, and natural make-up. Therefore, at the end of story Andrea chooses to be truly to her personality.

3.1.2 Andrea Sachs Ideal-self

Rogers is suggesting that something not real, something that is always out of person reach, the standard a person cannot meet is called ideal-self. An ideal

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self briefly represents a person who is striving to achieve their goals or ideals. In other words, it is persons dynamic ambitions and goals.

My goals were not so lofty: I was intent on finding a job in magazine publishing. Although I knew it was highly unlikely I’d get hired at The New Yorker directly out of school, I was determined to be writing for them before my fifth reunion. It was all I’d ever wanted to do, the only place I’d ever really wanted to work (Weisberger 11).

Andrea Sachs represents her ideal-self because she is described as an ambitious girl. Her dreams job is to be journalist at The New Yorker. However, the first place hiring her was Runway, a fashion magazine. In the beginning of the story, Andrea Sachs is a young woman who does not believe the power of fashion. Andrea does not care about her performance. She never reads Runway or other fashion magazines.

‘And do you read Runway, Ahn-dre-ah?” she interrupted, leaning over the desk and peering at me more intently than before.

I didn’t lie, and I didn’t elaborate or even attempt to explain. “No”

After perhaps ten seconds of stony silence, she beckoned for Emily to escort me out. I knew I had the job (Weisberger 22).

Because she wants to achieve her dream or goal in her life which being a journalist in The New Yorker, she decided to take a job as Miranda’s assistant. Moreover, Emily and Allison said working for a year as Miranda’s assistant can get Andrea into her dream job.

I nodded. “That’s what Emily and Allison said, that it was an automatic quid pro quo. Work for a year for Miranda and don’t get fired, and she’ll make a call and get you a job anywhere you want.” (Weisberger 24)

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Andrea believes working in Runway is a key to reach her dream. She is optimist with her decision ‘I had to try it. I was lucky to have it’. The phrase ‘Lucky to have it’ indicates Andrea is a lucky person who can work at Runway

magazine. However, she never knows that working with Miranda took her precious time with family, friend, and boyfriend.

But I had a good feeling that this was an opportunity I’d be crazy to turn down, that this could actually be a great first step to getting to The New Yorker. I had to try it. I was lucky to have it. (Weisberger 27)

Andrea Sachs feels that she faces great changes in her life when she is entering a job as Miranda Priestley’s assistant. After working twelve weeks at

Runway, Andrea Sachs has a fashion and personal life transformation. She turns from an unfashionable into a fashionable girl. She has a standard of beauty which is like Runway girls. Therefore, she is starting applying make up, wearing

fashionable clothes, and so on.

Twelve miserable long weeks of being looked up and down from hair to shoes each and every day, and never receiving a single compliment or even merely the impression that I had passed. Twelve horrifically long weeks of feeling stupid, incompetent, and all-around moronic (Weisberger 121). And so I decided at the beginning of my fourth month (only nine more to go!) at Runway to be a new woman and start dressing the part (Weisberger 122).

Andrea realizes that she is just an ordinary girl who wears an ordinary clothes. She knows that she is not matching with her working environment. In

Runway, people are wearing branded clothes, shoes and bags to support their performance because it is a fabulous fashion magazine where we have to perform perfectly. Therefore, she decides to transform her appearance.

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“I looked in the full-length mirror and had to laugh: the girl in the maidenform bra (ich!) and cotton jockey bikinis ( double ich!) was trying to look the part of Runway? Hah. Not with this shit. I was working at Runway magazine for chrissake-simply putting anything that wasn’t going torn, frayed, stained, or outgrown really wasn’t going to cut it anymore. I pushed aside my generic button-downs and ferreted out the tweedy Prada skirt, black Prada turtleneck, and mid calf length Prada boots that Jeffy had handed me one night while I waited for the book” (Weisberger 146).

In this quotation, the researcher concluded that Andrea Sachs has changed her way of dressing. From the word ‘I pushed aside my generic button-downs and ferreted out the tweedy Prada skirt, black Prada turtleneck, and mid calf length Prada boots’, Andrea wears branded things to improve her lifestyle. She also realizes that she is Miranda Priestley’s assistant and need to support Miranda’s performance.

My favorite so far (and it was still only late afternoon on Monday) was a pleated school-girl skirt by Anna Sui, with a very sheer and very frilly white Miu Miu blouse, paired with a particularly naughty-looking pair of midcalf Christian Laboutin boots and topped with a Katayone Adeli leather blazer so fitted it bordered on obscene. My Express jeans and Franco Sarto loafers had been buried under a film of dust in my closet for months now, and I had to admit I didn‟t miss them (Weisberger 219).

The quotation shows that Andrea Sachs loves fashion. She adores fashion and knows what her favorite outfit is. She also understand well about branded outfit such as Anna Sui, Miu Miu, and Katayon Adeli. Beside branded blouses, skirts, and jackets she also wears branded boots from Christian Laboutin. It proves that she is fashionable woman.

Andrea also brings a fashionable bag and clutch wherever she goes. She does not only recognize its benefits for her job but also know that a fashionable

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bag completes her performance. It is expressesed when she accompanies Miranda Priestly in the limo when they want to attend a party in Paris. Andrea Sachs wears one of famous branded bags from Bottega Venetta as her compliment for her outfit and chiffon skirt.

My Fossil watch was turned around so the face was sitting on the inside of my wrist just in case anyone tried to catch a glimpse of the brand, and a quick check with my right hand indicated that no bra straps were visible (Weisberger 117).

Another compliment of her performance is a watch. The little wardrobe such as a watch also takes a part in her performances. She wears a branded watch such as Fossil in her wrist. This branded watch even makes other people turn to see at a glance to her watch.

To support her new appearance Andrea also applies make up on her face. She becomes a young woman who wears make up which can support her career in

Runaway. It is because standart of Runway girl is always to put make up on. The only stop left was a quick visit to the Beauty Closet, where one of the editors there took one look at my st-streaked

makeup and whipped out a trunk full of fixers (Weisberger 6).

The quotation above shows that Andrea Sachs puts make up in her face whenever she does her task, even really hard task, from her boss, Miranda Priestly. In the story, she gets a task to pick Miranda Priestly’s shift-stick

luxurious car and puppy, Madelaine. She burns so much energy in doing this task. It makes her sweaty and breaks her make up. After doing this task, she goes to beauty closet and repairs her make up. It shows that she needs make up in her workplace. Her will to fix her make up indicates that she does care with her

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Andrea Sachs uses mascara in her eyelashes. She chooses brand-new great lash mascara from Maybelline to make her eyelashes thick and dark. The

application of mascara in her eyelashes proves that mascara is an important make up for her.

“You can’t show up in a cab,” Lily said to me as I jabbed helplessly at my eyes with my brand-new Maybelline Great Lash mascara (Weisberger 255).

Andrea Sachs as a young woman and also a worker needs make up and branded outfit in her daily life. She always tries to use make up wherever and whenever she goes. She also must to change her body into skinny. So, Andrea start to diet for a skinny. Andrea decided using make up, wearing branded outfit, and changing into skinny it must be doin. Because they are important things that can support her career in Runway magazine.

Consequetly working hard in Runway as a Miranda’s assistant makes Andrea lost her weight. Moreover, she must looks like Runway girl (skinny). She begins to maintain body shape to support her career. Andrea starts to eat salad or peanut at breakfast time. Then Andrea prefers diet coke rather than coke. It all because Andrea imitates Emily behaviour that always drink a diet coke.

“hey, Em, I’m just going to run down to the newsstand and see if they have Women’s Wear yet. I can’t believe it’s so late today. Do you want anything?”

“will you bring me a diet coke?” she asked, diet coke as always.

“sure, just a minute,” I aid and weaved quickly through the racks and past the doorway to the elevator. I took a two bootles of diet coke, one for Em and one for me. (Weisberger 245)

Andrea also started to select food that she wants to eat. It must be healthy as always, low-sugar, no fat, and low carbohydrate. She ordered a sundae ice

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cream in a longue with Lily. Andrea orders vanilla ice cream, nothing sugar free or low fat, and so on. It makes Lily said that Andy insane.

“I’d like a sundae ice-cream and I’d like to actually eat it before the entire thing melts. Vanilla ice cream-not yogurt and also not ice milk, and nothing sugar free or low fat with chocolate syrup and real whipped cream. Not canned, you understand? Genuine whipped cream.”

“Andy! This fxcking ridiculous. Why not order like that?” “Lily thats I doin for my job”. (Weisberger 184)

Andrea losses her quality time for working everyday. She spends almost all of her time just to do Miranda Priestly’s task. She wakes up early in the morning everyday and goes home late. Andrea realizes that she is being dominated by Miranda. Miranda is like a devil. It makes her feels sorrow and painful.

My head ached from a combination of hangover and axiety, causing my empty stomach to protest with threatening waves of nausea (Weisberger 339).

She focuses too much on her job. As a result, Andrea has no much time with her family, Lily, and Alex. In the first work, Andrea canceled dinner with Alex but Alex gives surprise in Andrea’s apartment. In new year eve, she wants to come to Lily’s new year’s party but suddenly she must go to another party. She is going to Marshall’s party, ordered by Miranda.

New Year’s party in LA, some “superhot, up-and-coming songwriter”. Emily accompany me, well actually I accompany her to Marshall party. Then I was chatting with the associate beauty editor who sat down the hall, a really sweet guy. The fact that he was a beauty editor at a fashion magazine (Weisberger 97).

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Marshall party. Andrea prefer to attend Marshall party with Emily because there are many editors come to the party. Unexpectedly, Andrea was met Christian Collinsworth, a journalist at New Yorker.

“It’s a strange place. I’m not so in fashion- I’d actually rather be writing,but I guess it’s not a bad start. What do you do?” “I’m a writer”

“oh, you are? That must be nice. What do you write?”

“mostly literary fiction so far, but I’m actually working on my first historical novel”. He took another swig and swatter yet again at pesky but adorable curl.

“first historical, what’s it about?

“it’s a story told from the perspective of a young woman, about what it was like to live in this country during World War Two...”

He countinued talking, but I’d already tuned him out. Holy sh*t. I recognized the book description immediately from a

New Yorker artikel I’d just read. I was standing at a party, casually chatting with Christian Collinsworth, the boy genius who’d first been published at the ripe old age of twenty from a Yale library cubicle. (Weisberger 118)

Combining career and life is not an easy thing. It happens in Andrea Sachs’s life. When she starts to get compliment for her seriousness in career she loses her parents, friends, and boyfriend. The more she gets closer with her dream, the more she looses her quality time with family, friends, and boyfriend.

Day by day Andrea feels exhausted working as a Runway girl (Miranda’s assistant). Her priority is only Miranda, Andrea’s move must be as faster as she can after Miranda gives her a task. Miranda hate being late or slow. It makes Andrea half run to get it.

The phone rang in ten- to twelve-minutes increments, each request sending another shock of pain directly to my head.

Brrringg. “Get Mr.Tomlinson on his air phone on the jet.” (B-DAD) didn’t answer on his air phone when I tried calling it sixteen times). Brrringg. “Remind all the Runway editors in Paris that just because thaey’re here does not mean they can

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neglect their responsibilities at home- I want everything in by original deadline!”. Brrringg. “ Get me a regular American turkey sandwich immediately-I’m tiring of all this ham.” (I walked more than two miles in painful boots and with an upset stomach, but there was no turkey to be found anywhere. I’m convinced she knew, since she’d never once before asked for a turkey sandwich while in America- even through, of course, they’re avaiable on every street corner). Brrringg! Brrringg! Brrringg!Brrringg! (Weisberger 339).

Andrea must come early in the morning before Miranda to prepare her breakfast. She also wants Starbucks coffee every time (morning and afternoon), and Andrea must call Miranda’s driver come as fast as possible when Miranda is going out for meeting, eating, so on. Rule number one is Miranda hate for waiting “Ahn-dre-ah! My shoes are ruined. Do you hear me? Are you even listening? Find my driver, now!” (Weisberger 216).

Since working with Miranda, Andrea becomes anxious for trying to do anything correctly. Because Miranda has a perfect standard qualities of all her jobs so Andrea tries not to disappoint her boss. It is said in this quotation below

“Get what, exactly, I wasn’t sure, but things were going as smoothly as I could have hoped at this point. I’d pulled off the clothing order with only a few noticeable screwups. She hadn’t exactly been psyched when I’d shown her everything she’d ordered from Givenchy and accidently pronounced it precisely as it appears- give-EN-chee.” (Weisberger 270)

From the quotation above, Andrea Sachs can do her job correctly. She feels happy that she can do her job without doing any mistake. At first, Miranda does not believe that she can do anything that she wants, but in fact Andrea can do it correctly. In here, Andrea is developing her way of thinking from slow become

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fast. Although she has no experience before, she can try to be the best for Miranda.

From the previous descriptions, it can be concluded that Ideal-self is represented by Andrea’s ambition and goal. The way to reach her ambition such as changing appereance, working late until having no quality time with family, friend and boyfriend. Working as a personal assitant took Andrea personal life. She realizes that her ambition cannot be accomplished if she is still working in

Runway. It is because the dream of her work cannot meet. Andrea is not

confidence while in ideal-self. The opposite of it, Andrea feels confident of her truly inner personality, real-self.

3.1.4 Congruence and Incongruence

After analyzing Andrea’s self-concept based on Rogers’ real-self and ideal-self, the researcher concludes that Andrea has an inner personality which belongs to a simple girl that wears a simple make up, clothes and shoes.

Moreover, researcher found that Andrea has an ideal-self, to be a journalist at New Yorker.

Unfortunately, she begun working at Runway magazine, as a personal assistant, to reach her dream. Because Emily and Allison said working for a year as Miranda’s assistant can get into Andrea is dream job. Then Andrea starts changing her appearance into a fashionable girl, always put make-up on, and wears branded clothes and shoes. Andrea never presumes that working as Miranda personal assistant will make her suffer and exhausted. Andrea has less time for her-self because she spends fourteen-hour everyday on workdays.

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I couldn’t wait for the weekend. My fourteen-hour workdays were registering in my feet, my upper arms, my lower back. Glasses had replaced the contacts I’d worn for a decade because my eyes were too dry and tired to accept them anymore. (Weisberger 84)

In this situation, the researcher finds that Andrea’s condition indicates to be incongruence. At first she wants to work as a journalist, in fact she ends up being a personal assistant. It indicated that Andrea shows inconsistency inside her decision. ‘I had known the minute I stepped on the Runway floor that I didn’t belong’ (Weisberger 21). In addition from her appearance, for the first Andrea was wears simple clothes and shoes but since working in Runway she wears branded stuffs. This condition shows that self-image is different to the ideal-self.

At the end of the story, the researcher found Andrea chose back into real-self. Andrea did not wear branded stuffs again because she is completely back into her real-self. She gives her mother her dress and her purse.

Except for the dress, the tight and very sexy D&G jeans, and the utterly classic, quilted, chain-handle purse I’d given to my mom as a gift (“Oh honey, this is beautiful. What’s this brand again?”), I sold every last filmy top, leather pant, spiked boot, and strappy sandal (Weisberger 358).

After Andrea quits working at Runway and has a job as a journalist at

Seventeen magazine. Although her dream is working in New Yorker but she believes working as journalist in Seventeen will be better than working as an assistant. Her passion is to be a writer, not as an assistant.

Andrea never expects to find a new job so fast. In the morning her phone rang, it is a calling from Seventeen magazine offering Andrea job opportunity as a journalist. Moreover, Andrea does not have to be a fashionable girl while working

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at Seventeen magazine because that magazine needs Andrea to make an article or literary works. Andrea took that job, although being New Yorker journalist still becomes Andrea’s dream job.

The phone rang on my way to seek out hidden booty. “hello?” I answered in my best irritated voice. I’d finally stopped answering any ringing phone with “Miranda Priestly’s office”

“hello there. Is Andrea Sachs there, please?” “speaking. May I ask who’s calling?”

“Andrea, hi, this is Loretta Andriano from Seventeen

magazine.”

My heart lurched. I’d pitched a 2,000-word “fiction” piece about a teenage girl who gets so caught up on getting into college that she ignores her friends and family.

“Hi! How are you?”

“I’m fine, thank you. Listen, your story got passed along to me, and I have to tell you- I love it...”

“why don’t we set up a meeting? You need to come in and fill out some of these papers, and I’d like to meet you anyway. Bring anything else you think might work for the magazine.” “Great. Oh, that sound great.” We aggreed to meet next Friday at three, and I hung up still not believing what had happend. (Weisberger 353-354)

The researcher analyze that Andrea’s real-self and ideal-self are similiar with her experience. This condition is called congruence. Andrea was graduated from Brown University majoring in English and focus on creative writing.

“It says here that you studied at Brown?”

“Yes, I, uh, I was an English major, concentrating on creative writing. Writing has always been a passion.” So cheesy! I reprimanded my-self. (Weisberger 21)

In conclusion, based on Rogers if a person wants to achieve actualization they must be in a state of congruence. Andrea reaches her self-actualization by her state of congruence, the similarity her real-self and her ideal-self. Andrea’s new job as a journalist at Seventeen magazine is similar with her

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experience which was studying creative writing at Brown University. Moreover, Andrea does not need to use branded clothes and shoes while working at

Seventeen.

3.2 Andrea’s Fully Functioning Person

A good life as a fully functioning person is when a person who able to choose or move into a free human organism. Related with Andrea’s life described in novel The Devil Wears Prada, it concern with her decision to quit as Miranda personal assistant in Runway magazine.

“Ahn-dre-ah, you realize what you’re doing, do you not? You do know that if you simply leave here like this, I’m going to be forced- ”

“f*ck you, Miranda. F*ck you.”

She gasped audibly while her hand flew to her mouth in shock, and I felt not a few Clackers turn to see what the commotion was. They’d begun pointing and whispering, themselves as shocked as Miranda that some nobody assistant had just said that and too quietly to one of the great living fashion legend (Weisberger 342).

At this moment, Andrea is not afraid to lose her job. She is assured to quit. She is not afraid with Miranda Priestly’s threat of firing her. She finally speaks up what she feels. She thinks that it is enough to struggle for her job. She wants to save her life. Andre finally has the courage to tell the truth to Miranda. From now on, she is not afraid that she will lose her job, because she realizes that she has to do something to make her life better, although as the consequences she will be fired from Runway.

“So sorry, Miranda,” I announced in a normal voice that for the first time since I’d landed in Paris wasn’t shaking

uncontrollably, “but I don’t think I’ll be able to make it to the party tomorrow. You understand don’t you? I’m sure it’ll be

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respond, I hitched my bag higher up on my shoulder, ignored the pain that was searing from heel to toe, and strutted outside to hail a cab. I couldn’t remember feeling better than that particular moment. I was going home. (Weisberger 342)

From the quotation above, the researcher can conclude that Andrea feels being a free human organism after said ‘so sorry’ which means she quits. Andrea Sachs shows her relief. The fear haunting her life slowly disappears after she decides to quit from her job. She believes that Miranda will get another Andrea soon. She realizes that there will be something better after she quits from her job. Good life is a process of human movement, to set their life into freedom. Human organism selects when it is inwardly free to move in any direction (Rogers 187).

3.2.1 An Increasing Openess to Experience

According to Rogers an increasing openess to experience is the first characteristic of good life. It is when people are being open to their feelings of fear and pain. They are also more open to feelings of brave, tenderness, and awe (Rogers 188). The researcher found that Andrea starting to increasing openess to her experience. It is described in story that Andrea was a brave person.

Andrea took a big step in her life. She decided to quit from job. Moreover, she bravely said quit in front of Miranda’s face, her boss. Although, Andrea is angry with Miranda but she still shows tenderness, from quotation ‘I announced in a normal voice’ (Weisberger 342). It indicated, she is able to control her anger or receive fear and pain. Fear of loosing her dream job and pain caused by working as assistant.

“So sorry, Miranda,” I announced in a normal voice that for the first time since I’d landed in Paris wasn’t shaking

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uncontrollably, “but I don’t think I’ll be able to make it to the party tomorrow. You understand don’t you? I’m sure it’ll be lovely, so please do enjoy it. That’s all”. And before she could respond, I hitched my bag higher up on my shoulder, ignored the pain that was searing from heel to toe, and strutted outside to hail a cab (Weisberger 342).

The quotation below show conversation between Miranda and Andrea, before she decided to leave Paris and quit from her job. Miranda becomes angry because Andrea answer her question ‘Oh really’. In that situation, Andrea was in a dilemma with her life, she wants to yell at Miranda but she is still patient.

‘Ahn-dre-ah, we have a very serios problem here. You have a very serious problem....” she stared at me, but all I could do was concentrate on not throwing up.

“Oh, really?” her hand tightened around her bag and her eye began to bulge with anger.

“Oh, really?” she mimicked in a hyenna-like howl. “Oh, really? That’s all you have to say? ‘Oh, really?’ ”.

“No, uh, of course not, Miranda. I didn’t mean like that. Is there something I can do to help?” (Weisberger 340).

Actually, Andrea’s dilemma is because she wants to come home back in America and accompany Lily in hospital. Her best friend is in coma because of car accident caused by high level of alcohols in Lily’s blood. Andrea worried about Lily condition after recieve a call from mother while she is in Paris.

“Honey, I don’t mean to interrupt you, but something’s happend. We got a call today from Lenox Hill Hospital. I think, and it seems that Lily’s been in an accident.” And although it’s quite conceivably the most cliched

expression in the English language, my heart stopped for just a moment. “What? What are you talking about mom? What kind of an accident?”

“A car accident, honey. A rather serious one,” (Weisberger 330)

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car accident. She tells her mother that she will go home as soon as possible although she knows her job with her boss does not finish yet. She knows that Miranda Priestly is very upset hearing what she says in phone. However, she does not care. She does not want to save her career. Quitting from her job is her final decision.

“Mom, I‘m getting on the next flight I can. I‘ll call you when I get to JFK. I‘m coming home.” I clicked the phone shut before she could respond and looked up to see Miranda, who

appeared genuinely surprised. I felt a smile break through the headache and nausea when I realized that I‘d rendered

her momentarily speechless. Unfortunately, she recovered quickly. There‘s a small chance I wouldn‘t have gotten fired if I‘d immediately pleaded and explained and lost the defiant attitude, but I couldn‘t seem to muster one single, tiny shred of self-control (Weisberger 342).

Andrea is becoming understand to listen to the inside of her-self willing which is good for her life or not. Andrea realizes that being around her family is important than working hard but Miranda never respects Andrea. By calling her mother to tell that she is going home soon incidates that she listens to her-self need, just as Rogers said that ‘The individual is becoming more able to listen to their self need, to experience that going on within their self’.

3.2.2 Increasingly Existential Living

Increasingly existential living descibed by Rogers, it is for a person who was fully open to their new experience, so completely without defensiveness, and each moment realize as a new experience. After arriving to America, Andrea realize that being free from job makes her over sleep. ‘ I pried open my eyes and

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CHAPTER IV

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

4.1 CONCLUSION

Based on Andrea Sachs’s personality in The Devil Wears Prada novel, the researcher found Andrea’s personality belongs to self-actualization person and a fully funtioning person. The researcher explains Andrea character in the previous chapter that she is described as a brave, individual, loving family, friendly, and honest person.

The researcher finds that Andrea Sachs character in Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada shows as her real-self and ideal-self. The real-self show as her inner personality, a simple young girl lived in Avon. She has no fashion style, she always use a simple clothes or unbranded. In addition, she does not really care with make up. She feels beautiful when she does not wear any make up in her face. She is always confident while wearing a simple clothes and make up.

Then, the researcher finds the real-self of Andrea is including spending time with family, Lily, and Alex, attended thanksgiving party, had dinner date with Alex, and went to bar with Alex and Lily. Moreover, another confidence of Andrea is showing that she loves eat. She ever eats a big portion of burger. All of them belongs to inner personality of Andrea Sachs.

Not only described as a real-self but also the researcher finds that Andrea’s personality changing into ideal-self. Her ideal-self belongs to Andrea’s dream job. Her dreams job is as a journalist in New Yorker since studying in Brown

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Andrea has no interest in fashion. She believe that working in Runway is a great opportunity to know all editors in New York city, expicially at New Yorker.

Because Runway is a fashion magazine so Andrea appereance must change into a fashionable girl. Andrea starts to use a branded clothes, bags, shoes, and another stuffs to support her carrer in Runway. In addition, she also puts make up on. She has noo more time for spending with family, Lily and Alex. It also affects her habit of eat, she prefers to eat healty food, low sugar, to support her become skinny.

At this stage, Andrea become in dilemma that her dream job cannot be reached while become an ideal-self. Finally, she realizes that her life and career are imbalance or incongruence. She decides to quit from her job and back into her inner personality, it is called congruence. At this stage, Andrea becomes a self-actualization person, because, there is a the similiarity between Andrea real-self as a writer and ideal-self as a journalist. Futhermore, Andrea got a new job at

Seventeen magazine. She feels to have a good life as a fully functioning person. Although her job is not in New Yorker but she still can be a journalist rather be a assistant.

She never denied an experience that had been passed. She told the truth to person when asked her previous job. She accepted her bad experience as a new life experience in life, because it means that Andrea is at the new stage in her life as a fully functioning person. Andrea Sachs is being a fully functioning person when she is working as a journalist at Seventeen magazine.

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4.2 SUGGESTION

The researcher analyzed a novel entitled The Devil Wears Prada to know Andrea Sachs’s personality which belong to self-actualization and fully

functioning person. The novel is a best-seller novel and interesting to analyzed. There are many researcher interested to analysis The Devil Wears Prada novel in the topics of girl power, American individual myth, capitalism, and so on. This researcher focused on the personality of Andrea Sachs character. The researcher analyzed it by using Carl Rogers theory, to get understanding about

self-actualization and fully functioning. For another researcher, it is suggested to explore move on Carl Rogers self-concept theory, because the researcher only focus on real-self, ideal-self, congruence, and incongruence. So, for another researcher focus on self-concept; positive conditional regard or positive unconditional regard, and anothers.

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