This study will discuss the anxiety experience by Cath, the main character in
Rainbow Rowell's novel Fangirl. Three problems will be discussed in this study,
namely the symptoms of cath anxiety, the causes of cath anxiety, and the effect of
cath anxiety. The theory that will be used in this study is literary psychology from
Sigmund Freud's theory which will focus on Cath's experience of anxiety. This study
uses a qualitative method. The information uses comes from the novel Fangirl by
Rainbow Rowell. Several quotes from the novel support reading analysis, taking
notes, paying attention to keywords, collecting data, and drawing conclusions from
the novel data collection techniques. It can be concluded that Cath, in this novel,
experiences two symptoms. The first is panic disorder, which occur when Cath first
moved to the hostel where she is studying. She saw a boy who shouldn't be in the
hostel because the hostel is for women only. The second is stress disorder, the cause
of anxiety that Cath experienced came when her twin sister had reconnected with her
mother, and that made Cath remember her past. While the cause of Cath's anxiety
came from her family environment, firstly the divorce of her parents and her father's
illness, the twin factor for Wren is Cath's twin sister, who wanted to separate from
Cath, and from there she also became dependent and became an introvert person.
And from these causes, Cath gets the result of the causes mention above, namely,
there are positive effects and negative effects. This negative effect has a big effects
in Cath, namely by depending on her twins, while the positive effect is Cath can
reconcile. With her past and starting to accept her mother back.
