Portrait of Women’s Struggle Performed by The Main Character in Fern Michaels’ Texas Rich

ABSTRACT

One of the most apprehensive problems is the women oppression in several aspects of life. Around the situation of society and national development, women always become the victims who are suffering the worst treatments. In military world, moreover military family, women have been in an inferior position to get their right equal in position to men’s position. In Fern Michaels’ Texas Rich, the main character shows her struggle in military family, not only struggle to get the same position, but also struggle to defend her marriage and her family. The researcher in his research states one main point problem that is the form of woman’s struggle in military family performed by the main character in Fern Michaels’ Texas Rich.

Feminist literary criticism has begun from the reality that traditional cannon and person’s view in literary works still has differentiated, especially in drawing of women and men’s character in literary work that is so different. Feminist Literary Criticism demonstrates women’s point of views that emphasizes on the critical way through the female points of views, concerns, and values in literary works.

This research is categorized into literary criticism because the researcher conducts the discussion of literature, including description, analysis, and the interpretation of literary work. The researcher uses feminist literary criticism. It emphasizes on the finding the data related to the woman’s struggle in military family and female main character’s survival way in the story.

Based on the objectives of the study, the researcher analyzes one main problem that is the forms of the woman’s struggle in military family. The researcher found the struggle in pre-marital life, in post-marital life, and after having children. The researcher also found the struggle of the main character in defending the marriage and family beside the struggle in gaining the same position in the family.