thought. She is a person who needs the love and affection from another person. She is always fond of someone, and cannot exist without loving p.179. Without
love and care from others, she cannot do anything independently in her life. When Olenka has relationship with Smirnin, the veterinary surgeon, she repeats the
veterinary surgeon’s words, talks about veterinary concerns, and has the same opinion as him about everything. It is evident that she cannot live a year without
someone p.183. When she marries Kukin, her first husband, her opinion is based on
Kukin’s ideas. When she marries with Pustovalov, her second husband who works as a manager of the timber merchants, what Olenka’s talking about is about the
timber. Without having someone to be loved and who cares about her, she will not be able to give her opinion about something p.184. Olenka’s thought and feeling
always depend on someone she loves. Everything that Olenka told is always based on others’ thought and opinion.
Her ideas are always based on her husband’s point of view. She likes what her husband likes, and she does what her husband does. Her husband’s thoughts
and ideas are hers. If he thinks the room is too hot, or that business is slack, she thinks the same. Her husband does not care for entertainments, and on holidays he
stays at home. She does likewise p.182. Love gives big contribution for Olenka’s life. If she has love, she will be able to give her ideas about anything,
and makes her have a purpose in life, but if she has not love, it will not happen. She wants a love that will absorb her whole being, her whole soul and reasons-that
will give her ideas and an object in life, and will warm her old blood
p.184. Olenka is a person who always wants a love in her life, to give her the motivation and inspiration. She needs others to depend and rely on. The existence
of another person in her life is very important for her.
2. Emily’s Characteristics as Described in A Rose for Emily
Emily is the main character in A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner. Emily as the major character also dominates the whole story.
a. Social Traits
Emily is a woman who comes from a rich family. She has a big house as an inheritance from her father. The author states directly that Emily’s house is
beautiful and contains expensive and luxurious things. Her house is located in a good place in which just certain people can live there. The author describes that it
is a big, squarish frame house that has once been white, decorates with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies,
sets on what had one been our most select street p.307. Emily’s father is a philanthropist. As a daughter from a man who has
loaned his money for the town, it can be concluded that Emily’s family is a rich family. Because her father passed away, the government decides to make Emily’s
family free from all taxes. The author states that Colonel Sartoris invents an involved tale to the effect that Emily’s father has loaned money to the town,
which the town, as a matter of business, prefers this pay of repaying p.307. Because Emily is from a rich family, she is honored by people in her town.
It can be seen when some people in her town do not quite dare to ask her directly
about the strange smell which arises from Emily’s house. They just give a lime around her house quietly and Emily does not know about that.
So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily’s lawn and stunk about her house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brick
work and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regular sowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung from his shoulder. They
broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings 309.
Her social status as a person, who is honored by people on her town, can also be seen from the people’s care towards her when she passed away. In her funeral, all
people in her town come to give their last respect to her. It can be seen as follows: When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral. The
men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one
save an old manservant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years p.307.
b. Physical Appearance
Emily is an old woman who is small but has a fat body. The author also describes that Emily’s skeleton is small and looks like unbalanced because her
body is obese. Emily has small eyes and they are lost in the fatness of her face. People assume that she is a bit eccentric. Actually, the author explains very little
about Emily’s physical appearance. They rose when she entered—a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold
chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare;
perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in
motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of
dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand 308.
