THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN GONE GIRL FILM

This thesis deals with the characterization of Amy Elliot Dunne as the main character in Gone Girl film. The study was aimed to find out the characterizations of Amy and the most dominant characteristic of Amy in the film. The study was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative method. The source of the data was Gone Girl film. The data of the study were linguistic features that were formed as sentences by Amy’s utterances from her dialogues and monologues as the main character. The findings of the study showed that the characterizations of Amy were: (1) intelligent, (2) perfectionist, (3) insecure, (4) liar and (5) vengeful. And the most dominant characteristic of Amy was liar. The evidence of the most dominant characteristic was by analyzing the 39 selected data consisted of 7 quotes (17.94%) that revealed Amy as intelligent, 5 quotes (12.82%) as perfectionist, 11 quotes (28.20%) as insecure, 13 quotes (33.33%) as liar, and 3 quotes (7.69%) as vengeful