A Study of Delia Grinstead's character development in Anne Tyler's ladder of years - Digital Collection of Petra Christian University

This thesis is a study about character development of the main character, Delia
Grinstead in Anne Tyler's Ladder of Years. In the novel, Delia Grinstead, makes a
provocative decision by leaving her family. For this reason, the thesis writer is curious to
analyze what reasons that make Delia leave her family and how her leaving finally
enables Delia to gain character development and also to change her idea toward her
family. Therefore, this thesis intends to prove that there are reasons that cause Delia to
leave her family and that her leaving finally changes her character and idea toward her
family. Furthermore, in order to make an analysis on the reasons of Delia's leaving and
Delia's character development, the thesis writer will apply literary device namely theory
of characterization. In addition, she will add the definition of key term of escape and
psychological theory on human relations to support the analysis. From the analysis, the
thesis writer finds out that Delia's background of lacking social life and her weakness in
facing problems affect her relationship with her family. Another reason why Delia leaves
her family is because Delia wants to escape from her problem that is her bad relationship
with her family. However, during her escape, Delia undergoes character development
through the improvement of her social life. Further, her wrong idea toward her family is
also changed since Delia can have an open communication with her family so that she
can renew her relationship with her family and Delia returns to her family finally.

Contributor
• (84-001) Nani Indrajani Tjitrakusuma
• (93-009) SARAH PRASASTI

Subject
1. TYLER, ANNE,1941-.... LADDERS OF YEARS-STUDY AND TEACHING
2. AMERICAN FICTION-20TH CENTURY-STUDY AND TEACHING

Keyword
open communication, facing problem, social life, human relation, psychological theory

Category
s1 - Skripsi/Undergraduate Thesis (Program Studi Sastra Inggris S-1)

Rights
Undergraduate Thesis No. 629; Ratnawati (11493076)
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