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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn this thesis, I choose Marsha Norman?s work which entitled `Night, Mother. It
is a play that has ever received Pulitzer Prize, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Hull-
Warriner, and Drama Desk Award in 1983. In Marsha Norman?s `Night, Mother,
there are two characters, Jessie and Thelma. In my thesis, I focus my analysis
only in the main character, Jessie Cates. I will discuss about her personality by
looking at the background of her family, her daily activities, and her performance.
This thesis analyzes what problems that Jessie has in her life which lead to her
suicide in Marsha Norman?s `Night, Mother. In doing this thesis, I use literary
approach with characterization and conflict as the tools and I also use
psychological concept of personality and inferiority complex. Then in my
analysis, I find out that Jessie?s final decision to commit suicide is not caused
only by emotional feeling but also influenced by her many problems and her
character traits. Jessie tells her plan of committing suicide only to her mother
because she wants to keep it private between her and her mother. During their
conversation before Jessie?s suicide, shows that actually Jessie has many
problems of life which makes her depressed such as, her sickness, epilepsy, her
divorce, her bad communication with her son, Ricky, and her bad communication
with her mother. Her many problems and her character traits as seen from her
problems has made her feel inferior and it influence her to commit suicide. Even
though her mother, Thelma, tries to prevent Jessie from her plan, Jessie?s overall
plan cannot be changed. She has made a definite decision and her plan is going
smoothly. She shoots herself by her father?s gun. Through Jessie, the play shows
that many problems that followed by bad character traits may cause bad effect in
someone?s final decision.