The statements of research problem are: 1) How did O. Henry portray the main character in The Complete Works of O. Henry? 2) This study is intended to explain: 1) To find out how O. Henry portrayed the main characters in the short story collection on The Complete Works of O. Henry 2) To find out the characters of the main character in the short story collection on The Complete Works of O. Henry. The method in this study is qualitative by using library research, the data for the research is all sentences and dialogues among the character in the short story which are related to the characters’ characterization. The steps to collect the data are: a) Reading the five title short stories of The Complete Works of O. Henry, b) Taking notes, the required expressions or sentences from the short story that contain the information about main characters., c) Identifying all sentences and dialogues in the short story to get the data, d) Choosing the data dealing with the problems that will be investigated, the writer used a content analysis method as the data analysis. The findings of this study reveal that: 1) In the five short story titles in the collection of short stories "The Complete Works of O. Henry" there are two methods of characterization and they are the direct method and the indirect method, the characterization method used in each of the short story titles. different, there are those who only use one method and those who use two methods. This can be seen in how the narrator portrays the main characters and through the actions of the main characters that we can see in their dialogue in each story. 2) In five selected short story titles in the "The Complete Works of O. Henry" short story collection there are several main characters in each of the short stories, some of which have two main characters, 3 main characters, and some even have only one character main. This can be seen that the main characters contribute or become the center of conflict or plot in each of the short stories.
Key words: Analysis, Characterization and Main Character.