‘ANXIETAS’ TOKOH-TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL THE GREAT GATSBY KARYA F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This skripsi entitled “Anxiety of the Major Characters in the Novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgeraldâ€is intended to be one of the requirement to accomplish the “Sarjana†at the Faculty of Humanities Manado.

The aims of this analysis are to analyze and classify the kind of ‘anxiety’ of the major characters in the novel The Great Gatsby. The interactions among the major characters, the characterization of the major characters, including the identification and category of ‘anxiety’ are described.

In terms of methodology, the combination of two approaches applied namely the intrinsic as well as the extrinsic ones. The concept of ‘anxiety’ and its categories including ‘characters’, are two concepts representing the extrinsic and the extrinsic ones.  The psychological theory about ‘anxiety’ by Freud in Minderop (2010) and Davison, Neale and Kring (2012) and also a paradigm by Roberts (1983) are used, to be completed by a descriptive analysis. The data are collected according to ‘content analysis’ method.

The results of this research show that all major characters tend to have ‘anxiety disorder’ reaching this level of abnormality. Nick Carraway has ‘objective anxiety’ and categorized in phobia disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, Jay Gatsby has neurotic anxiety and categorized in obsessive compulsive disorder.