Psychological Dynamic of Female Characters toward Marriage Problem in Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train

This research analyzes about woman characters in The Girl on the Train novel by Paula Hawkins. It focuses on the characterization of each character and their psychological condition when they faced problemin marriage. New criticism is applied to describe the characterization and psychodynamic is used to reveal the psychological condition ofeach character. The result of this study shows the change of characterization in each character based on problem that happened to them. (1) Rachel is described as a grateful and imaginative woman but after she gets the problem of marriage her character changes into insecure, depressed, jealous, obsessive and slovenly. (2) Anna is described as selfish but also a grateful character then after she has the marriage problem she changes to be a suspicious. (3) Megan is described as unfaithful then she changes into honest character after she gets the marriage problem.