<![CDATA[This article analyzes the psychological aspect of the main characters in six shortstories from the book Pengantin Luka written by K.Usman. From the fifteen short storiesfrom the book, six are chosen because they have a same theme that is marriage. Theory ofpsychology of literature is used to analyze those short stories as the main characters involvein the internal conflict within themselves which rose because of id, ego and superego. Thecharacters are Tantini, Sarinah, Karel, Gadis, Nabila, and Maligum posses the giving wayand sincere feeling, sadness and longing, faith and wait, selecting a partner, honesty and lies,even a real and fake happiness. Human beings always catches for happiness and ignores thetension so that they can’t make the differentiation between fantasy and reality. Marriage forsome people is the most wanted and the happiest thing but this short story revealed anotherside of marriage. A bride is couples of human that have been committed to the marriage.Wound is a painful feeling because of the pain.]]>
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