A Description of Main Character in Colleen Hoover’s Novel Verity

Abstract

This paper discusses Verity’s personality and how Verity portrayed in the novel Verity. This paper uses Erikson and Tomlinson’s theory. The writer used qualitative research methods in terms of selecting and interpreting and finally describing data that concerns with personality types selected through the texts of the novel. Those data are in the form of words, sentence or even paragraph in the form of quotations. Following the psychological theory, there are four personalities that were found on Verity, possessive and jealousy. Besides, the depiction on how Verity portrays is through physical appearance, the way the character talk, character behavior, other character perspective, environment and abnormal activity. The writer used main character theoretically to describe them. It can be stated that a character can have such an abnormal behavior that may causes a lot of damage to their surroundings.