Mrs. Lisbon Possessiveness towards her daughters described in Jeffrey Eugenides` The Virgin Suicides.

摘要

This thesis entitled Mrs. Lisbon’s Possessive towards her daughters described in Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides is an objective Possessive personality of Mrs. Lisbon as the main character to protect her daughters. The writer used descriptive qualitative method to find Possessive personality of the main character. The writer also used two kind of approach to analyze; there are structural approach and psychological approach. Structural approach used to analyze structural elements like general description of main character, conflict experiences, and setting. Then, psychological approach used to analyze what is the Possessive that main character used. According to structural approach Mrs. Lisbon as the main character described is the mother, firm, worried, insensitive, conservative, and protect. As the main character, she also has some internal conflict and external conflict experiences. The internal conflict experiences are when Mrs. Lisbon tried to keep smiled even though she actually was sad when the boys pick up her daughters to go to party at school. Mrs. Lisbon felt depression that befallen her families, even she must use sedatives to attended her daughter funeral rites. The external conflict experiences are Mrs. Lisbon against Dr. Hornicker, Cecilia, Lux, Linda Perl, and The Foreman. The setting in this novel divided into two; there are the setting of place and the setting of time. The settings of place are in Home of Lisbon’s Family and Bus Station and The Setting of Time are on Sunday, Tuesday and Fife-thirty. Mrs. Lisbon’s Possessive towards her daughters is because Mrs. Lisbon is worried about her daughters, so that’s why she protecting her daughters. But in protect her daughters she also conservative and insensitive, she became possessive and assumed her daughters as an object to do what she wants. Mrs. Lisbon didn’t expecting if what she has done before can made her daughters committed to suicides. She thought if she possessed to her daughters, they would be saved and happy. But in fact, with her possessive, her daughters committed to suicides.