War Challenges and Psychological Trauma: A Reading of the Women by Kristin Hannah Through the Lens of Trauma Theory

The present research examines the character of Frankie in the novel The Women and how war circumstances and the after-war behavior of society affect Frankie's mental health, which later became the cause of PTSD.The main objective of this research is to analyze the character of Frankie through the lens of PTSD and observe how the responses of her surroundings led to her trauma. Cathy Caruth’s trauma theory serves as theoretical lens, in interpreting the PTSD and trauma depicted in the novel. The research leaves a cognitive space to apply the feminism theory to novel The Women (2024) by Kristin Hannah