Woman Struggle Experienced by Patty Day In Gillian Flynn’s “Dark Places” (2009): A Marxist Feminist Theory

This research aims to investigate the kinds of woman struggle that experienced by \nPatty Day in Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, its depiction in the novel, and the \nreason why the issue is depicted by the author in her novel. In analyzing Dark \nPlaces, this research uses Marxist-feminist theory and theory of struggle that \npresented by Marsam (2000). The kinds of woman struggle that Gillian Flynn \ntries to emphasize are the struggle in economy such as: social class, class struggle, \nand the access to financial capacity. By observing the background of main \ncharacter’s life and social relation which influenced the main character in doing \nsome act of struggle, it can be concluded that the depiction of woman struggle can \nbe seen in the form of discrimination that happen to the main character. Dark \nPlaces gives a clear depiction that woman struggle in the novel is to tell the \nreader, especially women reader, to be more aware of what they might experience \nas a wife and a mother in the future.