Literature is a writing that expresses life in words, and contains about a story or an experience that is created and consumed by human beings. One of literary works is novel. By reading novel we can understand the human being temper and acquire the new knowledge of life. That is why the writer of this thesis is interested in conducting and analyzing about suffering in Kay Gregory’s novel ‘Marry me Stranger’. This analysis is conducted to analyze suffering that is experienced by Isabella. The investigation is focused on Isabella’s suffering, the causes of Isabella’s suffering and the solution on Isabella’s suffering. This research uses descriptive method because the study is to describe or to give confirmation about suffering in Kay Gregory’s novel ‘Marry me Stranger’. Then, in appreciating Kay Gregory’s novel, the thesis writer uses an objective approach. It is based on studying a literary work itself that is only on suffering. The population of this study is the whole events in the novel ‘Marry me Stranger’ by Kay Gregory, while the sample of this study are paragraphs, dialogues, and quotations related to suffering. The result of this study shows that there are three sufferings that are experienced by Isabella, they are : being kept in the room, feeling jealous and feeling underestimated. Then, the causes of Isabella’s suffering are : refusal to marry, Brand’s memory of Mary and Brand’s business and being regarded as an immature woman. In solving the problem about Isabella’s suffering, Isabella overcomes her suffering by doing some ways that deal with each suffering, they are : running away, taking Brand’s attention and sympathy and moved to another place
