ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN SIDNEY
SHELDON’S NOVEL “MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT’’
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YOLANDA HUTAGALUNG
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ABSTRAK
Novel adalah salah satu karangan prosa yang bersifat cerita dan yang menceritakan suatu pengalaman, pemikiran, perasaan, gagasan, semangat, dan mengandung pesan tertentu kepada pembacanya.
ABSTRACT
The novel is one of prose that tells a story and experiences, thoughts, feelings, ideas, spirits, and contains a spesific message to the reader.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Firstly, I want to express my gratitude, tribute and honor to Jesus Christ,
my Redeemer who has blessed me with health and capability to complete this
paper in order to fulfill one of the requirements to finish my study at English
Diploma Study Program, University of North Sumatera.
I would also to thank the Dean of Faculty of Culture Studies, Drs.
Syahron Lubis M.A and I wishes to express my sincere gratitude to all lecturers
for their valuable knowledge and guidance and advice during the years of the my
study at the faculty and also my sincere gratitude goes to Dr. Matius C.A
Sembiring, M.A as the Head of English (D-III) Study Program and Dra.
Persadanta karokaro, M.Hum as the secretary of English (D-III) Study Program
who gives me advice to finish this paper.
I wish to acknowledge the essential help given by Dra. Syahyar Hanum,
DPFE as my supervisor and Drs. Siamir Marulafau, M. Hum. as my reader.
Thanks for time, patience and supportive guidance in completing of my paper.
I am gartefull to all my beloved friend of 2008 for a warm friendship we
shared for the last 3 years. Love you guys!
A sincere thanks to my Lyma Group (Agnes L. Gaol, Maria M. Purba,
Lenni Simajuntak), B’ Roni Alamsyah Lubis, Joko Hadi Sunawan as my best
dady in campus and the other juniors I can’t mention one by one for the uplifting
On this occasion, I don’t forget to express my whole hearted thanks to my
beloved family. My father, M. Hutagalung and my beautiful mother, R. Sinaga
who have supported and motived me during the years of my study, for your
unconditional love, for the material and for your prayer. I would like to express
my gratitude for their love and support. My beloved brother, Frayudi
Hutagalung, I do know for sure that I have your supports and love with me ( I
love you a lot).
In the knowledge that the paper is far from being perfect, I do hope that
those who read this paper will give their contribution in term of critics and
suggetions, so that this paper will be much better. Hopefully, this paper will
insipre anyone of us to explore more on the topic I have analyzed.
Medan, ...2011
The writter
Yolanda Hutagalung
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.5Significance of the Study ... 3
2. BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR ... 4
3. SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL ... 8
4. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ... 11
4.1Characterization ... 11
4.2Division of character ... 12
4.2.1 Main Character and Peripheral Character ... 13
4.2.2 Protagonist Character and Antagonist Character ... 13
4.2.3 Types of Characters: Round and Flat ... 14
4.3 Questions about the Characters in Novel ... 15
5. THE ANALYSIS ... 19
5.1Harry Standford ... 19
5.2Tyler Standford ... 22
5.3Kendall Standford ... 25
5.4Woody Standford ... 26
5.5Julia Standford ... 27
6. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 6.1 Conclusion ... 29
6.2 Suggestion ... 30
ABSTRAK
Novel adalah salah satu karangan prosa yang bersifat cerita dan yang menceritakan suatu pengalaman, pemikiran, perasaan, gagasan, semangat, dan mengandung pesan tertentu kepada pembacanya.
ABSTRACT
The novel is one of prose that tells a story and experiences, thoughts, feelings, ideas, spirits, and contains a spesific message to the reader.
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1Background of the Study
Literature is a common term of imaginative work. Literature sprang up from
the imaginative mind of the writter. But literature also portrays the condition of
the society as the writter is the member of the society. Literature is a creative
expression of human imagination or wishes, which is hardly ever reflected in our
actual life, and will exist detached from the individual life. Richard Taylor in his
book Understanding the Element of Literature (1997: 15) says that literature, like
other arts, is essentially an imaginative act of the writer’s imagination in
selecting, oredering, and interpreting life-experiences.
Literature according to Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs in their book
Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing (1995:2) is classified into four
categories or genres: (1) prose fiction, (2) poetry, (3) drama, and (4) nonfiction
prose. From the various types of imaginative literature, my choise falls on prose
fiction , exactly on novel, which is a fictitiouss prose narrative of considerable
length and complexity, portraying characters and presenting an organized
sequence of events and scenes.
Some of novels are fiction and some based on true stories. Both of those not
only entertain but also give meaning messages and impression to readers. Most
people are concerned with ordinary people and their problems in the societies in
which they find themselves (John Peck and Martin Coyle in their book Literary
Sidney Sheldon is one of wonderful author. Morning, Noon and Night is the
most famous and the best novel. Most people in all over the world have read it, or
heard a radio version of it, or seen it in the cinema or on television. The author is
really creative so that messages of the story can be sent to the readers. I hope by
discussing the novel, the young authors who be the next novelist can make the
mutual story. I really hope to the novelist of Indonesia can make the best seller
novel
1.2Objective of the study
To describe the main characters in novel Morning, Noon ang Night; Harry
Stanford, Harry Stanford, Tyler Stanford, Kendall Stanford, Woody Stanford, and
Julia Stanford; whether it is bad or good, negative or positive that shown by their
attitude in facing the problems.
1.3Scope of the study
There are so many aspects in this novel that can be described, but I am more
interested in describing the characters especially main characters; Harry Stanford,
Harry Stanford, Tyler Stanford, Kendall Stanford, Woody Stanford, and Julia
Stanford. So, the scope of the study is limited only on describing the main
character viewed from Morning, Noon and Night’s novel.
1.4Method of the study
The source of this paper analysisi is novel. The novel discussed in this paper is
Morning, Noon and Night. The focus of analysis is the main characters.
So, the method used in analysis this report writing is reading the novel more
it completely, the next step is to select the quotations. The quotations become the
data of the analysis. These quotations are made as supporting ideas to strengthen
the analysis especially about the description of characters.
Beside that the method used in writting this report is library research and
internet research. In this research, all the data and information related to the
analyses are taken from books and aother sources.
1.5. Significance of the study
The significance of the study are :
• To enrich the literatury study especially about the characters in
Morning, Noon and Night’s novel.
• To give a clear understanding about the characterization through
novel Morning, Noon and Night specially for the study of literary
insights.
• To give a references to anyone who is interested about Morning,
2. BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
Sidney sheldon was born on February 11, 1917, in Chicago, Illinois. His
parents, of
manager of a jewelry store, and Natalie Marcus. At 10, Sidney made his first sale,
$5 for a poem. During the
graduating from Denver East High School, he attended
moved to Hollywood, California, where he reviewed scripts and worked on a
number of B-movies plots, developing his writing talent. When World War II
broke out, he joined the Army Air Force, serving as a pilot, but returned to
civilian life as soon as the military would release him near the end of the war.
Moving to New York City, he began writing musicals for the Broadway stage,
while still writing screenplays for both MGM and Paramount Studios. In 1947, he
won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the movie, "The Bachelor and the
When television became the new popular medium, he decided to try his
hand in it. "I suppose I needed money," he remembered. "I met
day at lunch. So I produced
else in TV ever did. For seven years, I wrote almost every single episode of the
series."
Sheldon created, produced and wrote
production capacity with
years, sometimes using three pseudonyms (Mark Rowane, Allan
Devon, Christopher Golato) while simultaneously writing scripts for The Patty
Duke Show. He also used the same pseudonyms in writing all seventeen episodes
of
appearing too often in the credits as creator, producer, copyright owner and writer
of these series. He also wrote for the series
Production for I Dream of Jeannie ended in 1970 after five seasons. It was
"During the last year of I Dream of Jeannie, I decided to try a novel," he said in
1982. "Each morning from 9 until noon, I had a secretary at the studio take all
calls. I mean every single call. I wrote each morning or rather, dictated and then I
faced the TV business."
In 1969, Sheldon wrote his first novel, The Naked Face, which earned him
a nomination for the
Midnight, climbed to 1 on
miniseries. His novels often featured determined women who persevere in a tough
world run by hostile men. The novels contained a lot of suspense and devices to
keep the reader turning the page:
“I try to write my books so the reader can't put them down," he explained
in a 1982 interview. "I try to construct them so when the reader gets to the end of
a chapter, he or she has to read just one more chapter. It's the technique of the old
Saturday afternoon serial: leave the guy hanging on the edge of the cliff at the end
of the chapter.”
Most of his readers were women. Asked why this was the case he said: "I
like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important,
retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power their femininity, because
men can't do without it." Books were Sheldon's favorite medium. "I love writing
books," he commented. "Movies are a collaborative medium, and everyone is
second-guessing you. When you do a novel you're on your own. It's a freedom
that doesn't exist in any other medium."
Sheldon was married for 30 years to Jorja Curtright, a stage and film
actress who later became an
episode of I Dream of Jeannie. She died of a
He married Alexandra Kostoff, a former
executive of
became a novelist as well.
Sheldon died on January 30, 2007 from complications arising from
remains were cremated, the ashes interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park
Cemetery.
Sheldon won an
for
musical Redhead, and was nominated for an
2. BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
Sidney sheldon was born on February 11, 1917, in Chicago, Illinois. His
parents, of
manager of a jewelry store, and Natalie Marcus. At 10, Sidney made his first sale,
$5 for a poem. During the
graduating from Denver East High School, he attended
moved to Hollywood, California, where he reviewed scripts and worked on a
number of B-movies plots, developing his writing talent. When World War II
broke out, he joined the Army Air Force, serving as a pilot, but returned to
civilian life as soon as the military would release him near the end of the war.
Moving to New York City, he began writing musicals for the Broadway stage,
while still writing screenplays for both MGM and Paramount Studios. In 1947, he
won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the movie, "The Bachelor and the
When television became the new popular medium, he decided to try his
hand in it. "I suppose I needed money," he remembered. "I met
day at lunch. So I produced
else in TV ever did. For seven years, I wrote almost every single episode of the
series."
Sheldon created, produced and wrote
production capacity with
years, sometimes using three pseudonyms (Mark Rowane, Allan
Devon, Christopher Golato) while simultaneously writing scripts for The Patty
Duke Show. He also used the same pseudonyms in writing all seventeen episodes
of
appearing too often in the credits as creator, producer, copyright owner and writer
of these series. He also wrote for the series
Production for I Dream of Jeannie ended in 1970 after five seasons. It was
"During the last year of I Dream of Jeannie, I decided to try a novel," he said in
1982. "Each morning from 9 until noon, I had a secretary at the studio take all
calls. I mean every single call. I wrote each morning or rather, dictated and then I
faced the TV business."
In 1969, Sheldon wrote his first novel, The Naked Face, which earned him
a nomination for the
Midnight, climbed to 1 on
miniseries. His novels often featured determined women who persevere in a tough
world run by hostile men. The novels contained a lot of suspense and devices to
keep the reader turning the page:
“I try to write my books so the reader can't put them down," he explained
in a 1982 interview. "I try to construct them so when the reader gets to the end of
a chapter, he or she has to read just one more chapter. It's the technique of the old
Saturday afternoon serial: leave the guy hanging on the edge of the cliff at the end
of the chapter.”
Most of his readers were women. Asked why this was the case he said: "I
like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important,
retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power their femininity, because
men can't do without it." Books were Sheldon's favorite medium. "I love writing
books," he commented. "Movies are a collaborative medium, and everyone is
second-guessing you. When you do a novel you're on your own. It's a freedom
that doesn't exist in any other medium."
Sheldon was married for 30 years to Jorja Curtright, a stage and film
actress who later became an
episode of I Dream of Jeannie. She died of a
He married Alexandra Kostoff, a former
executive of
became a novelist as well.
Sheldon died on January 30, 2007 from complications arising from
remains were cremated, the ashes interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park
Cemetery.
Sheldon won an
for
musical Redhead, and was nominated for an
3. SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL
Harry Stanford, one of the richest man in the world, mysteriously
drowned while sailing with yacht off the coast of Corsica, and his death triggered
a series of events that echoed around the world. Harry Stanford's death makes his
lawyer team led by Simon Fitzgerald so busy. The reason, so famous figure of
Harry Stanford, bringing home his body just need a complicated bureaucracy. But
Steve Sloan is given this task by Simon finally know, the bureaucracy is just an
excuse for the local police chief to get publicity for the sake of personal interest.
Steve Sloan, the lawyer who is the advocate for the family has a tough time
bringing the body back to Boston.
After that, another task waiting for, namely the reading of legacy issues.
To whom Harry Stanford's wealth will be inherited? He is a rich widower with 3
children who had never been close to him. Tyler Stanford who is a judge with a
limited salary, Woodrow or better known as Woody Stanford, polo athletes that
suffer because of injury, and Kendall Stanford who managed to become famous
fashion designer. They have their own problems. Tyler had destroyed his
household because her father forced him to marriage. Tyler was always teased
because of his sexual orientation a deviant. While Woody prefer to marry a
waitress, Peggy Malkovich, rather than a conglomerate daughter Mimi Carson
who had long admired him. Injuries make Woody a slave hard drugs and loser.
Another with Stanford Kendall who married Marc Renaud. They were gathered to
Harry gave the wealth to all children. That means, if there are children with
another woman, then she got a part. At that moment, suddenly appeared a young
woman who claims to be Julia Stanford, their half brother.
Later in their family house, as the family was gathered, a beautiful young
woman claiming to be Stanford's daughter appears with enough proofs. She was
claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of Harry Stanford. The arrival of Julia is
not only surprising, but it also invites mistrust.
Harry Stanford’s abuse scandal had dominated the mass media at that
time. He impregnates her nanny, Rosemary Nelson. This makes Mrs. Fraud
Stanford committed suicide. Rosemary eventually leave, and move residence to
avoid the press game. Since then Rosemary was never heard from again until the
emergence of a woman who claimed to Julia. Although no evidence, but she
knows many stories about Stanford’s family.
Tyler calls a private detective, who confirms that the lady is in fact Julia.
When Harry's body is needed for DNA testing, the body mysteriously disappears.
DNA tests fail because of Harry's body suddenly disappeared from the tomb. But
who hired a detective to prove her fingerprints were identified as Julia. The fact,
the woman was a swindler named Margo Possner.
Actually, Julia Stanford struggled to continue living alone after the death
of his mother. She became secretary of a small law office, and share an apartment
with another girl. Her friend advised her to meet her half brothers after hearing the
news of her father's death. At first she refused, but later changed her mind after
The emergence of women both as Julia Stanford Stanford made family and
lawyer confused. Steve Sloan has initiative to give a ride home to Julia. He also
tried to investigate who is behind all this. One by one, he began to reveal the
involvement of The Baker, Dmitri Kaminsky who becomes Harry's personal
bodyguard, and Margo Possner and red thread that connects them. He rushes to
bus station and lets Julia to stay in his house. Steve proves that Tyler told a
prostitute to act as Julia who came first and a thief to act as a detective. Tyler goes
to Steve's house and will kills Julia.
The fact is, Tyler plotting to kill his own father to take all inherited from
his father. But after much deliberation, which shows that Harry was sunk in loans
and in fact the Big Boston’s house also needs to be sold so that banks can recover
the debts. Tyler kills himself. Meanwhile, Steve and Julia began to fall in love
4. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
4.1 Characterization
In fiction, a character may be defined as a verbal representation of a
human being. Through action, speech, description, and commentary, authors
portray characters who are worth caring about, rooting, for, and even loving,
although there are also characters you may laugh at, dislike, or even hate.
John Peck and Martin Coyle in their book Literary Terms and Critism
(1986 : 105) explained the definition of chracter as follows :
“ Characters in literary work are not like real life people for they have been specially created by authors. When authors create character, they select some aspect of ordinary people. Develop some of those aspect whilst playing down other and put them together as they please, the result is not an ordinary person but a fictional characters who only exist in the words of literary works.”
Many of the question in public examination are about character. Whenever
we write about characters in novel, they are not just like a real life people. A novel
is a world specially made in words by an authors. A novel exists in the way it does
because an author has chosen to put it together in that particular way. This means
that novels are not real life. Novels, however, are fictional; that is to say, they
have been made up. A character in novel can’t be compared to a real person from
whom he or she has been copied, because, for example, there is no Sidney
Sheldon in real life. He, or any other character in a novel, only exist on the page.
as they please. The result is not an ordinary person but a fictional character who
only exist in the words of the novel.
Characters also refers to moral qualities and ethical standards and
principles. In literature, character has several other specific meanings, notably that
a person represented in a story, novel, play, etc. In seventeenth and
eighteenth-century England, a character was a formal sketch or descriptive analysis of a
particular virtue or vice as represented in a person,what is a more often called a
character sketch. Finally, Character is the interest for the very personal that we
want to see how others people live, how they pursue their goals. We measure our
selves by them.
Martin Gray ( 1984 : 2 ) says that characterization is the way in which a
writer creates his characters in a narrative, so as to attract or repel our
sympathy. The varieties of characterization presented in literature are as numerous
as those of the real people who surround us in the world; but different kinds of
literature have certain conversation of characterization. Often in dealing with a
literary character we learn more of his or her motives than we would ever expect
to be certain of in real life; consistency of motivation seems a necessary fact in
literary characterization.
4.2 Division of Character
Based on the main role or the importance level, the characters in a story
divided into two kinds. They are main character and peripheral character. It also
divided into two types based on character’s appearance. They are protagonist and
4.2.1 Main Character and Peripheral Character
Main character is the character that often appears in the almost each event
and main character is the important and the special character, so that we fell is so
dominates the story. In certain novel, the main characters always appears in
almost each event and can be found in each page of the novel. When we read
novel or any other literary work, we will usually deal with some character. There
is character that classified as an important character and showed in the story
continuosly. In the case, main character has always related with other character.
Peripheral character is the character that appears once or sometimes in a
novel, and may be relatively in short portion. It is called peripheral character often
provide, support, and illuminate the protagonist.
4.2.2 Protagonist character and Antagonist character
Protagonist is the central figure of the story. The word “protagonist”
derives from the Greek protagonist, “one who plays the first part, chief actor.”
The term protagonist is defined to be either always synonymous with the term
main character, or it is defined as a different concept, in which case a single
character stil may (and usually will) serve the function of both the protagonist and
main character, or the functions may be split.
An antagonist from Greek antagonists,“opponent, competitor, rival” is a
character or group of characters, or, sometimes an institution of a happening who
represents the opposition against which the protagonist must contend. In the
antagonist is not always the villain, but simply those who oppose the main
character.
4.2.3 Types of characters: Round and Flat
The British novelist and critic E. M. Foster, in his critical work Aspects of
the Novel, calls the two major types “round” and “flat.”
Round Characters is a character who shows many different face; often
presented in depth and with great detail. The basic trait of round characters is that
they recognize, change with or adjust to circumstances. The round
character-usually the main figure in a story-profits from experience and undergoes a change
or alliteration, which may be shown in (1) an action or actions, (2) the realization
of new strenght and therefore the affirmation of previous decisions, (3) the
acceptance of a new condition, or (4) the discovery of unrecognized truths.
Because round they usually play a major role in a story, round characters
are often called the hero or heroine. Many main characters are anything but
heroic, however, and it is therefore preferable to use the more neutral word
protagonist. The protagonist is central to the action, moves against an antagonist,
and exhibits the abality to adapt to new circumstances. To the degree that around
characters are both individual and sometimes unpredictable, and because they
undergo change or growth, they are dynamic.
Flat Characters is a character who usually has only one outstanding trait
or featuree. In contrast, flat characters do not grow. They remain the same because
they may be stupid or insensitive or lacking in knowledge or insight. They end
worthless, for they usually highlight the developmet of the round characters.
Usually, flat characters are minor, although not all minor characters are
necessarily flat.
Sometimes flat character are prominent in certain types of literature, such
as cowboys, police, and detective stories, where the focus is less on character than
on performance. Such as character might be lively engaging, even though they do
not develop or change. They must be strong, though, and clever enough to
perform recurring tasks like solving a crime, overcoming a villain, or a finding a
treasure. The term stock character refers to characters in these to the degree that
stock characters have many common tarits, they are representative of their class,
or group. Such as characters with variations in names, ages, and sexes, have been
constant in literature since the ancient Greek.
4.3 Questions about the characters in novel
According to Richard Gill in his book Mastering English Literature (1985
: 97 ), it is important able to recognize whether a character is round or flat, but we
should not confuse this with another kind of question. An author can create in a
full or limited way, but the range of the character is a different consideration from
what the character is like. We should, therefore, also thinks about how an author
creates the personality, or individuality, of a character. The best way in which we
can approach thinking about the personality of a character is to ask questions
about the characters we meet in the novel. These questions should be about the
ways in which an author can make a character. They are:
There are two very general questions we can ask. The first is: what
are you told about the character? Authors need not tell their readers
directly about the personalities of their characters. They might show
readers a number of things in and through the events of the story, but it is
very rare to find characters who are entirely created in this way. Most
authors use direct telling to convey something about their characters.
The second general question has already been hinted at: what are
we shown about the character? When an author shows a reader something,
it is done indirectly. Something about a chracater can emerge from the way
he or she speaks, reacts or thinks.
• How characters speak
In many novels the way a character speaks is shows his/ her own
expression. The author frequently gives the characters personalities by
making them repeat some certain words, use many illustrations in their
speech, talk a great deal or say very little, or speak in a very complicated
or a quite simple manner.
• The appearance of characters
In many novels it is important to ask: what does the author tell us
about a character’s appearance? It is important to remembet that not all
novelist do. It is, therefore, worth asking why some novelist create detailed
pictures when others do not. If there is a detailed picture, the novelist will
able to control a reader’s, but if there is not, the reader may feel to use his
When an author writes about the appearnce of a character, he or
she is usually telling or showing the reader something about the inner
world of the character’s personality.
• How characters dress
Another question to ask about the appearance of a character is:
how does the character dress? Some authors, however, make clothes a
significant part of a character’s personality, important for the atmosphere
of the book or essential to the development of the plot.
• The social standing of characters
If an author is interested in the relation between the different
classes within society, he or she is likely to stree the social standing of
characters. You should remember that not every author is interested in the
working of society, and that those that are wil be interested in different
societies and will have different attitudes towards them.
• The names of characters
It is useful to ask: is there anything significant about a character’s
name? Often the answer will be no, but there are novels in which the
names suggest the nature of the character. The name is thus important for
the meaning of the novel.
• The company of characters
It is important to appreciate what this question is driving at. It does
a larger group such as the workforceof a factory. What matters is how the
author presents the character.
• What characters do
The way in which a character is shown as acting or reacting is one
of the chief ways in which authors establish personality. An author can
make everything a character does important. Even if the action is one that
is normally thought of as slight, it can be made significant.
You must be prepared to find some characters’ action to be
complex, because not every character reacts in same way throughout the
novel. In the case of such characters you must look at everything they do
and balance one action against another. Although characters in novel are
not real people, they can be as puzzling. Therefore, you should be prepared
5. THE ANALYSIS
5.1 Harry Stanford
Harry Stanford is the protagonist of Morning, Noon and Night and one of
the wealthiest men in the world. Harry Stanford is an easy target to follow. He is
six feet tall, with white hair lapping over his collar and an aristocratic, almost
imperious face. He is accompained by a striklingly lovely young brunette, a
pure-white German sherped, and Dimitri Kaminsky, a six-foot four-inch bodyguard
with a bulging neck and sloaping for a head.
Harry Stanford is fill with a sense of imminent danger. He has learn long
ago to trust his instict. Instinct and intuition have help him one of the wealthiest
men in the world. Forbes magazine estimates the value of Stanford Enterprises at
six billion. The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, dan The Financial had done profiles
on Harry Stanford, trying to explain his mystique, his amazing sense of timing,
the ineffable acu-men that has create the giant Stanford Enterprises. None had
fully succeeded.
What they all agree on was that he has an almost palpable, manic energy.
He is inexhaustible. His philosophy is simple: “ A day without making a deal is a
day wasted”. He wears out his competitors, his staff, and everyone else who come
in contact with him. He is a phenomenom larger than life. He thinks of himself as
religious man. He beleives in God, and the God he believes in wanted him to be
Harry Stanford prides himself on being a gourmet. He order a green salad
and fricassee de lotte for Sophia.
It can be seen quoted below:
Stanford turned to sophia, “ May I order for you my dear, please?” Sidney Sheldon, Morning, Noon and Night, 1995, p. 5)
Harry Stanford is really larger than life. He is a colossus. He has an
energy and ambition. He is a great athlete. He box in college and a ten-goal polo
player. He is the only man who has ever known who wag a totally without
compassion. He is sadistic and vindictive, and he has the insticts of a vulture. On
the other hand, he is a kind and generous man.
It can be seen quoted below:
“He had instincts of a vulture. He loved forcing his competitors into bankruptcy. It was rumored that there was more than one suicide because of him. Sounds like a monster.” Said Fitzgerald. (Sidney Sheldon, Morning, Noon and Night, 1995, p. 31)
“He founded orphanage in New Guinea and a hospital in Bombay, and he gave millions to charity-anonymously” said Fitzgerald. (Sidney Sheldon, Morning, Noon and Night, 1995, p. 31)
When he finishes college, his father brings him into the business as a
partner and puts him on the board of directors. Harry is ambitious. He has big
reams instead of buying meat from packing houses, he wants the chain to raise its
own livestock. He want it to buy land, and grow its own vegetables, can its own
goods. His father disagree, and they fight a lot. Then, Harry has his biggest
brainstorm of all. He tells his father he wants the company to build of supermarket
and charge costumers as membership free. Harry’s father thinks that is crazy, and
he turns down the idea. But Harry do not intend to let anything get in his way.
Harry Stanford kills his father to get his mother’s vote.
It can be seen quoted below:
Harry decided he had to get rid of the old man. He persuaded his father to take a long vacation, and while his father was away, harry went to work charming the board of directors. His persuaded his aunt and uncle, who were on the board, to vote for him. He romanced the other members of the board. He took thenm to lunch, went fox hunting with one, golfing with another. He slept with a board membees wife who had influence over her husband. But it was his mother who held the largest block of stock and had the final vote. Harry persuaded her to give it to him and had the final vote. Harry’s father returned, he learned that his family had voted him out of the company. (Sidney Sheldon, Morning, Noon and Night, 1995, p. 31)
Harry Stanford is not a good father for all his children. He always gets
angry, speaks loudly for his chidren everytime. He never shows his love for his
children.
It can be seen quoted below:
“What the hell are you doing?”
Tyler looked up,startled. His father stood in the doorway, furious. “Who told you could sit behind that desk?”
The young boy was trembling, “ I .... I .... just wanted to see what it was like.”
5.2 Tyler Stanford
Tyler Stanford is the oldest son of Harry Stanford. Tyler is not good
looking boy like his father. Tyler has none of his father’s charisma or
attractiveness. Tyler Stanford is a short, slightly overweight man with sharp
calculating eyes and a hard mouth. His outstanding feature is a deep, sonorous
voive, perfect for pronouncing sentence. Tyler Stanford is a private man who kept
his thoughts to himself.
It can be seen quoted below:
Tyler looked down at the defendant and said,” court cannot find any extenuating circumstances in this case. You are herewith sentenced to five years at Dwight Correctional Center. Next case!” (Sidney Sheldon, Morning, Noon and Night, 1995, p. 49; 129).
He is forty years old, but he looks much older than his years. He prides
himself on having no sense humor. Life is too grim for levity. His only hobby is
playing chess, arth once a week. He plays at a local club, where he invariably
wins.
When Tyler is graduate from Law School, he can practise in Boston, and
because of the family name he would have been welcomed on the boards of
dozens of companies, but he prefers to get far away from his father. He decides to
set up a law practice in Chicago. In the beginning, it is difficult. He refuses to
trade on his family name, and clients are scarce. Chicago politics are run by the
Machine, and Tyler very quikcly learn that it will be advantageous for a young
lawyer to become involve with the powerful central Cook Country Lawyers
mind and is a quick study, and it is not long before he becomes invaluable to
them. He prosecutes felons accused of every conceivable crime, and his record of
convictions is phenomenal. He rise rapidly through the ranks, and finally the day
copme when he receive his reward. He is appoint Cook Country CircuitCourt
Judge.
Tyler is a brilliant jurist, held in high esteem by his fellow judges, who
often come to him for advice. Very few people are aware that he is one of the
Stanfords. He never mentions his father’s name.
The judge’s chambers are in the large Cook Country Criminal Court
Building at tweentysixth and California streets, a fourteen-storey stone edifice
with steps leading up to the front entarance. It is in a dangerous neigborhood, and
a notice outside stated: By judical, All persons enter this building shall submit to
search. This is where Tyler spends his days, hearing cases involving robbery,
bulgary, rape, shooting, drugs and murders. Ruthless in his decisions, he becomes
known as the Hanging Judge. All day long he lists to defendants pleading poverty,
child abuse, broken homes, and a hundreed other excuses. He accepts none of
them. A crime is a crime and has to be punished.
Tyler Stanford’s fellow judges know very little about his personal life.
They know that he has a bitter mariage and has divorce now, and that he lives
alone in a small three-bedroom Gregorian house on Kimbark Avenue in Hyde
Park. The area is surround by beautiful old homes, because the great fire of 1871
that razes Chicago has whimsically spared the a Hyde Park district. He makes no
housekeeper who come in three times a week, but Tyler do the shopping himself.
He is a methodical man with a fixed routine. On Saturday, he goes to Harper
Court, a small shopping mall near his home, or to Mr. G’s Fine Foods or Medici’s
on Fifty-seventh street.
From time to time, at official gatherings, Tyler will meet the wives of his
fellow jurists. They sense that he is lonely, and they offer to intrduce him to
women friends or invite him to dinner. He is decline, “ I’m busy that evening”.
His evenings seem to be full, but they have no idea what he is doing with them. “
Tyler is not interest in anything but the law”, one of the judges explain to his wife.
“ He is just not interest in meeting any women yet. I hear he has a terrible
marriage”. He is right.
After divorce, Tyler has swear to himself that he will never become
emotionally involve again. And then, he has meet Lee, and everything has
suddenly change. Lee is beautiful, sensitive, and caring, the one Tyler want to
spend the rest of his life with.tyler loves Lee. The fact, Lee is a boy and Tyler is
tease his father because of his sexual orientation a deviant. From the age of
twelve, Tyler has know he is homosexual. One day, his father looks him fondling
and kissing a boy from his school.
It can be seen quoted below:
5.3 Kendall Stanford
Kendall Stanford is the oldest daughter of Harry Stanford. Kendall
Stanford can has mistake for one of the models herself, and at one time she has
been a model. She exudes carefully plotted elegance from her golden chignon to
her chanel pumps. Everything about her is the curve of her arm, the shade of her
nail polish, the timbre of her laugh, bespoke well mannered chic. Her face is
acctually plain if not use make-up. But Kendall takes pain to see that no one ever
realized this, and no one efer did.
She really cares to his father, so when Kendall finishes school she returns
to Rose Hill to organize anything in Rose Hill.
It can be seen quoted below:
Since Harry Stanford was away a good deal of the time, the staff was left to its own devices. Kendall tried to organize things. She scheduled the household activities, serves as hostess for her father’s parties and did everything she could to make him comfortable. (Sidney Sheldon, Morning, Noon and Night, 1995, p. 52)
When her mother is die, Kendall Stanford hates her father because her
father is kill her mother. Her mother committes suicide because of her father and
his affair with Rosemarry.
It can be seen quoted below:
Kendall Stanford never gives up to got work in modelling eventhough no
one agency accepts her. She tries to make agency believe that she can becomes
best model until Roxanne Marinack gave her a chance.
It can be seen quoted below:
Roxanne Marinack replaced the receiver and looked up. “ We are’nt looking for your type.” Kendall said desperately, “ I can be any type you want me to be. I can be taller or I can be shorter. I can be younger or older, thinner. Roxanne held up her hand. “Enough!” Kendall said, “ I swant is a chance. I really need this.” Roxanne had to smile at her earnestness and said, “Right. You’re....er... different, but you might have a shot. I’m going to take a chance on you. I’ll send you out on some go sees.” “I can handle it”, said Kendall. (Sidney Sheldon, Morning, Noon and Night, 1995, p. 53)
5.4 Woody Stanfords
Woody Stanford is young Harry Stanford’s son. Woody Stanford is
the golden boy of Hobe Sound. He lives in the family villa. He has classical good
looks, charming and greganous, and a target for all the eager debutantes in Hobe
Sound, Philadelphia, and Long Island. Everybodys a seismic shock when he
suddenly elopes with a twenty five years old waitress who is plainlooking, a
high-school drop out, and the daughter of a day laborer and a housewife.
Woody Stanford makes no secret of the fact that he hates his father, and
the general feeling is that he has married the waitress out of spite to show that he
is a more honorable man than his father. Woody tries hard to make a success of
the marriage. He knows he has make a mistake, and he does not want to punish
Woody’s friend are aware than even though he is staying at the Stanfoerd
villa. Woody is estranged from his father and that he eas living off the small
annuity that his mother had left him. His passion is polo and he rides the ponies
owns by friends. In the world of polo, players are ranked by goals, with ten goals
being the best.
The accident changes everything. Woody has accident during a polo
match. After that he begins to have violent mood swings. One minute he is his
usual ebullient self, in the middle of a sentence he will drift off into a deep
reverie. He becomes forgetful. He will make dates and not show up; he will invite
people to his home and not be there when they arrive. He becomes abusive to
Peggy in public.
It can be seen quoted below:
Peggy bringing a cup off coffee to woody’s friend one morning, She spilled some and Woody sneered, “ a waitress, always a waitress!” (Sidney Sheldon, Morning, Noon and Night, 1995, p. 65)
5.5 Julia Stanford
Julia Stanford is illegitimate daughter Harry Stanford. Julia stanford
grows into a beautiful young woman. She has lustrous dark hair, a lughing
generous mouth, the luminous gray eyes of her father, and a gently curves figure.
But when she smiles, people forgets about everything else but that smile.
Julia stanford is an optimist girl and always keep spirit to do something
because she has big dreams become succesful girl. She is the positive ideal with a
It can be seen quoted below:
Julia thought, “ this could be my big opportunity. This could lead anywhere. I mean, this isn’t just a job. I’ll be working for architects. Dreamers who build and shape the city’s skyline, who creae beauty and magic out of stone. Maybe I’ll study architecture, so that I can help them and be a part of them”. (Sidney Sheldon, Morning, Noon and Night, 1995, p. 79)
Julia Stanford is a smart girl. Her bos is very satisfied with her work. She
makes his boss proud of her.
It can be seen quoted below:
6. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
6.1 Conclusion
After having analyzed the description of main characters in this paper,
character is an important element in literature. It has a dominant part of literary
work which determines the integrated of literature from beginning to the end.
Characters are fictitious living person who live as if they were real. They
talk, have feelings and live together to fulfill their needs as individual and social
living in a character or person, he or she has the quality of being person.
There are five main characters in the novel Morning, Noon and Night,
namely Harry Stanford, Tyler Stanford, Kendall Stanford, Woody Stanford, and
Julia Stanford.
Morning, Noon and Night contains one of the most stories in English
Literature. I have mentioned above that Sidney Sheldon has written a number of
novels. We can find some advantages by reading the novel like the value of daily
life. Through the story we can search the solution of many problems.
I believe that is still difficult for me to understand English novel, but by
hard efforts, I have been able to finish this paper as one of the requirement to
acquire English D-III certificate at University of Sumatera Utara. Therefore for
those who want to analyze literary works, I must work hard and have efforts in
6.2 Suggestion
After analyzing Morning, Noon ana Night, I would hope that the readers
and audiences can more clearly understand about the characters in this novel and
who has not read the novel will set interested.
This paper also can be as a guide to other students in analyzing other
literary works especially novel. I would hope that other students can analyze
Morning, Noon and Night novel from other elements of literary works, such as
theme, plot, setting, point of view, and especially characterization. It is also
valuable to improve and intensify our ability in learning English. This study could
at last become guidance for further study about other elements of literature.
And I want to add that this novel consist of positive message to the reader.
In family we must understand of love each other and believe to what they have
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