Grace' experience to escape from her psychopath husband in b.a paris behind closed doors

In everyday live, the way people think can change because of their past experience. This study is based on phenomenology that focuses on Grace experience. Grace has experience when she is trying to escape from her husband. She tries to escape from her psychopath husband because she wants to save her sister, named Millie. Jack wants to kill Millie because she is powerless people. Grace always tries to escape from her husband and always failed. Because of her trying to escape always failed, she changes her perception and strategy to how the way to escape from her husband. Phenomenology theory focusing on Husserl’s concept is applied in this thesis. Phenomenology approach is used to know the changing perception of characterbecause of her past experience to escape. The data are collected from the text of B.A Paris’s novel, then the researcher analyzes them and makes conclusion. The result of this study shows that Grace past experience o escape changes the way she thinks. At first, she only does such a common way to escape from her psychopatic husband. Since all of her previous ways failed her to escape, Grace changesher strategy. She tries to adopt the way Jack kills Grace cat. Therefore, she is able to escape from her husband eventhough by killing Jack.