摘要：Literature is one of knowledge that has artistry and creativity inside as a form of expressionof thought, idea, and imagination. Long time ago, literature has been an important subjectbecause through literary works, someone could blow up about facts or injustices thatoccurred in that period. Nowadays, literature is not a special subject anymore because mostof people have less appreciation in literary works and judge it is a prosaic study. In thisresearch, the writer analyzes a main character in the novel Flowers of Algernon. The aimsof this research are (1) to portray a mental retarded person that occurs in Charlie Gordon asmain character; (2) to find out the similarities and differences between Charlie’s charactersand based on psychology theory; and (3) to find out the causes and effects compared to thetheory in describing the character in novel Flowers of Algernon. The writer uses apsychological approach to analyze character and the writer uses qualitative method as theresearch method. As the result, the writer finds six characteristics of Charlie as a mentalretarded person, namely IQ score 68, poor concentration, failure to relate with other people,anxious, fearfulness, and feeling tired easily. There are five similarities (low IQ, poorconcentration, failure to relate with other people, anxious, fearfulness) and one difference(feeling tired easily) between Charlie’s characters and psychology theory. There are twelvecauses and effects compared to theory in describing the character.Key Words: Character, Mental Retardation, Phenylketonuria
