Abstract
This research is intended to describe the relationship between love, death, and women, which is displayed in four short stories in a collection of “Falling in Love is the Best Way to Suicide” by Bernard Batubara. Data collected by a literature study and analyzed using descriptive analysis method. The study was conducted with the approach of literary psychology and feminist literary criticism. The theoretical basis for death and suicide used in this study comes from Durkheim, Freud, and Camus. The results of this study indicate that love is the cause or motive for suicide (physical or mental) committed by the protagonists. Suicides committed by the protagonists are categorized as egoistic and fatalistic suicides. The figure of the women in the shorts stories are imaged as a loyal woman and has a negative character (femme fatale).Women are shown to have power in love relations. Overall, the love that Bernard Batubara displays in these short stories is dark, unpleasant, and even deadly.
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