Abstract :
This Research discusses a novel which written by Elizabeth Gilbert entitled Eat
Pray Love. Eat pray love is an New York betsseller novel that represents
psychology of literature. The main characters in the novel is Elizabeth Gilbert.
The aims of this analysis are to find out the symptoms of stress response
syndrome suffered by Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love and to describe the
main character ways to heal stress response syndrome in the novel Eat Pray Love.
For achieving those objectives of the study, qualitative method, psychological
approach and teories of stress response syndrome are used in this analysis. This
thesis applies psychological approach in order to look at the relation between
psychology and literature. Further, The writer applies a psychological approach
especially stres respons syndrome theory by Timothy in Erica.
From this research, two findings can be clarified as the statement of the problem.
The writter found that the novel ?Eat Pray Love? by Elizabeth Gilbert, showed the
symptomp of stress response syndrome experienced by the main character. The
writer found five symptoms of Elizabeth Gilbert?s strees response syndrome
suffered. Those are lack of concentration, anxiety, sadness or hopelesness, crying
or angry, and feeling of isolation.Stress response syndrome suffered a feel painful
which can make her feel anxiety, sadness and hopelesness. The writer also found
the way of character healing stress response syndrome depicted by the main
character in the novel Eat Pray Love such as emotional support and medication.
In Indonesia the healing process begins. Gilbert meets with people who
understand his situation and help to get better life. In this novel there are several
characters that help her like; felipe, Wayan, Ketut Liyer, Mario, Richard, Etc. But
the writer focuses on Wayan, Ketut Liyer and Felipe Characters who provide
emotional support to Gilbert. However, everyone who has stress response
syndrome will face the symptoms and ways to heal it. Further, the writer hopes
this research will perfectibility by next research in same discuccion topic.
Keywords: stress response syndrome, adjusment disorder, eat pray love, psychology of
literature