MANAGEMENT OF CHARACTER DIVISION IN THE STORY OF MARRIAGE BY CONTRACT TAKEN FROM A ROMANCE NOVEL

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The research aimed to know the woman’s role in a marriage by contract. The novel entitled, “Marco Convenient Wife” is the reference for the research. This novel is related to the modern woman’s issues, particularly about the marriage inner conflict which frequently occurs in the social life. The research entitled “Management of Character Division in the Story of Marriage by Contract Taken from a Romance Novel” used descriptive qualitative method. Through that method, the writer conducted the research by reading the content of novel to comprehend the characters of the people in the novel, i.e., Marco and Alice. In that novel, there also is a little girl named Angelina. She is Marco’s niece who died of the traffic accident. Initiatively, Marco looked for a nanny who can be also an assistant.   Finally, Marco found Alice as Angelina’s nanny as well as Marco’s assistant.