@thesis{thesis, author={Dea Fadhlila}, title ={THE REFLECTION OF EMOTIONAL ABUSE ON THE MAIN CHARACTER IN ASHLEY AUDRAIN’S NOVEL THE PUSH (2021)}, year={2024}, url={http://repository.unsada.ac.id/7703/}, abstract={Parents, particularly mothers, play a crucial role in fostering a child's sense of security, love, and emotional wellbeing. They significantly influence a child's feelings of being cherished or neglected, secure or insecure from an early age. Ashley Audrain, The Push novel (2021) contains the story of a daughter who has an abusive behaviour but only her mother can feel this. This term-paper discusses about emotional abuse especially aggression and gaslighting theory by Dr. Theresa J. Covert (2020) that happened to victim mother from her daughter in the novel. The concepts include two approaches, intrinsic and extrinsic, are applied to analyze this novel. In this research, The Push novel is the primary sources and also supported by some relevant theories, definitions, and concepts which as secondary sources. The result of this finding is a reflection of a daughter acting out aggression and gaslighting especially towards her own mother.} }