Pat’s Struggle to Reach a Happy Ending Portrayed in The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

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Munafidsyah, Sofy Fawzia (2019) Pat’s Struggle to Reach a Happy Ending Portrayed in The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This research discussed Pat Solitiano's struggle to recognize his belief in a happy ending of his life, which is depicted in the novel The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick. It is important to know how Pat struggled to reach his hope. This research used a qualitative descriptive method to provide a full explanation and description. New Criticism is used as a big umbrella theory to analyze the problems that the researcher discussed. The theory helped the researcher to describe the character and his struggle. The results of this study showed that Pat Solitiano is a person who has a merciful, optimistic, and bad-tempered characteristic. He loved Nikki very much, and was optimistic that he would get Nikki back. His belief that his wife would return to him made Pat struggle for it. They were improving his physical and emotional health, becoming an enthusiastic book reader, and trying to be able to communicate with Nikki again. All Pat's struggles ended when he realized that Nikki was not back to him and Pat could not a happy ending.