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标题：The Clipped Life of the Wife in Edith Wharton’S Short Story Entitled “A Journey”
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作者：Ratna Asmarani
期刊名称：Language Circle
印刷版ISSN：1858-0157
电子版ISSN：2460-853X
出版年度：2021
卷号：16
期号：1
页码：137-145
DOI：10.15294/lc.v16i1.30239
语种：English
出版社：Universitas Negeri Semarang
摘要：The purpose of this paper is to analyze the life of the young wife that is clipped by many “othering” factors that prevent her from becoming a Self. The analysis is focused on the “othering” factors and the impacts on the young wife and on her relationship with her sick husband. The analysis is done through the perspective of existentialism combining the existentialism of Sartre and Beauvoir. Since the focus is on the female character, the particular perspective used is on the existential feminism focusing on the “woman-being-for-others” mode of being. The methods of research are the combination of library research method with its close-reading technique, the qualitative method, and the contextual method of literary analysis. The result shows that it is difficult for a wife to be a Self when she has to face many “othering” factors such as the husband’s illness, the doctors’ suggestion to move to a temperate climate State, the new environment, and the death of the husband while they are still on the train. These “othering” factors do not only clip the wife’s socialization, love and relationship with her husband, and anticipation to return home, but also clip the wife’s life so that she will never have a chance to be a Self forever.
关键词：existentialism; “othering” factors; contextual method of literary analysis