Widow General Description of Anna

25 them answer the same that in Siam everything has its own time. We can see from the quotation below: The Kralahome did not glance up. “Sir will be shown to palace quarters.” “I’m sorry, but the King promised us a home of our own outside the palace,” said Anna. “It is what was agreed upon.” “In Siam you will learn everything has its own time,” Kralahome replied tersely, still ignoring her. Hand, 1999:22 He turned and headed back to the gate. “And what of our house?” Anna cried after him Without looking back, he replied, “Everything has its own time.” Silently the garden’s vast gates swung open once more, just as silently closed after him. The King was gone. Anna stared, angry yet resolute, at the doors, completely unaware of the hundreds of eyes gazing at her in unrestrained awe and amazement. Hand, 1999: 57-56 The third, Anna’s struggling is when Khun Jao Tuptim, one of the king’s concubine. Tuptim runs away from the palace because she does not love the king and being sent to the king as a gift from her father towards the king. Just like a close friend, Anna tries to give a solution. When Phim, the Tuptim’s servant comes to Anna secretly, she asks Anna to meet Lady Tuptim. From the meeting we can see Anna’s struggling that she tries tell Tuptim that Anna would say to the king about Tuptim’s wish although it seems impossible for Tuptim as she became a monk to follow her boyfriend. We can see from the quotation below: 26 “Who is it?” she cried. “Please,” she whispered. “No one must see me I am Phim. My Lady Tuptim needs you.” “Go then.” She commanded in a low voice. “Bring me to her.” Phim pressed herself against the wall. From the darkness behind her another figure appeared, passing the young girl and stepping out into the square. A slender figure with a shaved head and eyebrows, wearing the saffron robes of a Buddhist monk. Tuptim. Anna gasped. “Dear girl, what have you done?” Tuptim approached her, hand outstretched. “What I have done is not result of King or intention to dishonor. A concubine’s is of no consequence to man consumed with matters of whole universe.” Anna shook her head in dismay. “Tuptim, why?” Why you didn’t come to me? The King might have understood. How could you do this to him? “If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain? This is what I need His Majesty to know, if such does not compromise Mem.” “I will tell the King anything you wish, but-“ Tuptim smiled. “I thank Buddha for giving me direction, and now, with Mem before me, I thank him for giving me a true friend.” Hand, 1999: 227-229 Moreover, Anna also struggles for Tuptim in the court. The debate could not be bare between Anna and the judges. She does not fear towards Siamese court and the judges though she is a foreigner in Siam. Anna keeps struggling for what she think it is right according to her way of thinking. Unfortunately, Anna’s effort is useless, the court has made a decision and even the King could not change what has become a decision in the court. The quotation is follows: