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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis is about Komako?s process of growth from an immature to
mature woman in Yasunari Kawabata?s Snow Country. The thesis writer chooses
the topic because she is interested in the way Komako?s character, who is at first
first self centered, emotionally unstable, and also incapable of facing problem and
conquering them, but at the end of the story, she becomes a mature woman. The
analysis is about the way Komako reaches her maturity through a process that can
be found in the problems and conflicts that she faces in life. The scope of this
thesis is the ways Komako finds her maturity and the analysis is limited only to the
main female character, Komako. The thesis writer uses literary approach and
employs as tools the theories of characterization and conflict. As the thesis writer?s
concerns are on psychological matters, she needs also the psychological concepts
of immaturity and maturity to support the analysis. From the analysis, the thesis
writer concludes that Komako has grown up from an immature to mature woman
after experiencing and solving some problems and conflicts. The thesis writer
finally finds out that the process happening in Komako?s life is hard and not easy.
However, to become a mature is a must to anyone who wants to live fully and
happily.