Anxiety Effects Towards Existence in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories Miss Brill and the Daughters of the Late Colonel

Document from the year 2015 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: Undergraduate, State University of Semarang, course: English Literature, language: English, abstract: Discussed about the effect of anxiety towards main characters’ existence as found in the short stories entitled Miss Brill and The Daughters of the late Colonel. The method applied in this research was qualitative. The writer used phrases, sentences, and paragraphs found in the short stories as the data of this final project. The procedure of collecting the data included reading, identifying, classifying, selecting and interpreting the data. The study finally found that First, anxiety occurred not only in several people with some serious condition such as lack of affection and company but also occurs in people who obtain too much affection. Second, the anxieties suffered by each characters on both short stories has strongly influence their characters on their community. And the third, each character of the short stories has different defense mechanism to cope with their anxiety. The different defense mechanism used by those characters’ are defined by their personality.