A study of Ella Marchmill’s character and her ambition in Thomas Hardy’s an imaginative woman

This thesis talks about psychoanalysis found in the short story An Imaginative Woman by Thomas Hardy. This thesis explains about the character of Ella Marchmill whose profession is a poet. Ella Marchmill had written her poem during one or two years before and published her poem uses pseudonym, because she embarrassed with her husband’s job. This thesis also explains about Ella Marchmill’s ambition to meet her rival poet, Robert Trewe. This thesis explains about how Ella Marchmill is admires Robert Trewe’s figure and Ella Marchmill’s efforts to achieve her ambition. This thesis collects the data from book, journal, internet and reference that have connect with the analysis topic with using qualitative method. The result of this thesis finds that Ella Marchmill used pseudonym in her poem because she is embarrassed with her husband’s job. This thesis also finds that Ella Marchmill has ambition to meet Robert Trewe because her admiration to all poems of Robert Trewe. Ella Marchmill feels that her character more suitable with Robert Trewe than with her husband’s.