ABSTRACTThis research uses Pragmatics approach, focusing on suggestions as the object ofthe analysis. This research applies descriptive qualitative research which takespurposive sampling technique. The data are taken from the dialogues containingsuggestions uttered by both male and female characters. There are 32 data whichare analyzed.This study gains three findings. The first finding shows that there are three typesof suggestions presenting in the data, they are direct suggestion, conventionalizedform of suggestion and the last is indirect suggestion. All the direct suggestionsare issued by female characters, while conventionalized form of suggestions aremostly employed by female characters. Surprisingly, indirect suggestions aremostly spoken by male characters in the novel.Second, in terms of politeness strategy, the research shows that all of the directsuggestions always employ bald on record. On contrast, the indirect suggestionscan never use bald on record strategy. While the other type, suggestions inconventionalized form are mostly loaded with bald on record, but can beoccasionally loaded with another politeness strategy, such as positive politeness.Finally, the last finding shows that although gender is not a significant factor, butgender may influence the choice of suggestions. Other factors which influence thechoice of suggestions are power, social distance and the size of imposition.Keywords : suggestions, speech acts, politeness, gender, novel.