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CHAPTER 3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Object of The Study
E. Lynn Harris is the author of five previous bestselling novels and Not A Day Goes By is his sixth novel. Not A Day Goes By is number one publishers weekly and blackboard bestseller from San Fransisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, and Philadelphia Inquirer. Also
The USA Today and New York Times number one bestseller. Published in 2000,
Not A Day Goes By became a popular novel in America. E. Lynn Harris successfully wrote a romantic novel that full of unordinary complex conflict, also the unexpected story.
John “Basil” Henderson, both as a professional football player and as an
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3.2 Approach of The Study
The writer used psychological approach to this study. The basis of this approach is the idea of the existence of a human consciousness – those impulses, desires, and feelings about which a person is unaware but which influence emotions or behavior. Usually used for see how character’s identity is developed.
Freud’s beliefs about human psychological motivations can be applied
directly to analyzing authors and characters in literature, also in other aspect of literature. For example, Aristotle used a psychological approach in Ancient Greece and Sir Philip Sidney used psychological approach for talked about the moral effectsof poetry.
In psychological approach, there are id, ego, and superego in someone’s mind. If id, ego, and superego is clashing, there is a anxiety. In order to survive, someone needs to using defense mechanism. Defense mechanism is needed to avoid feeling, deny, and survive in hard situation of mind.
3.3 Method of The Study
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The first step, the writer classified the events in each stage of the plot. So, in some events that found contain personality conflict of Basil.
Second step, the writer would categorize which is id, ego, or superego from the action of Basil in every stage and put the quotation as the proof.
Third step, the writer would analyze the clashing between id, ego, and superego and locate the anxiety.
Fourth step, the writer would categorize which types of anxiety Basil are.
Fifth step, the writer would analyze the defense mechanism that Basil used.
