Conclusions CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

Horse Dealer’s Daughter is described as a very nice and interesting girl. Mabel has good appearance. Mabel loves her parents very much. She is easy to make others fall in love with her. Mabel is also fragile because she is a person who always needs supports from others to motivate her life. The second concerns with the influence of the absence of love in the main characters’ behavior. Olenka in The Darling experiences the absence of love because the death of her father and her husband. After loss of people she loves, Olenka becomes an alienated person. She becomes a person who lives in sorrow. She rarely goes out and it makes Olenka difficult to make relationship with others, and she becomes unfriendly to everything that makes her become uncomfortable. Olenka becomes not care about herself. In thinking, Olenka becomes rigid. Emily in A Rose for Emily experiences the absence of love because of her fathers’ death. The death of her father makes her become an alienated person. Emily lives in sorrow. Her neighbor assumes that Emily suffers from fatigue. Emily has bad attitude towards her surrounding. Her unfriendliness makes Emily difficult to make a relationship with others. Emily also becomes a woman who does not care about herself after her father’s death. The death of her father makes Emily not confess to that reality. Emily tries to deny the reality of her father’s death because she wants to protect herself from an unpleasant reality. Losing her father also makes Emily become a possessive woman. Mabel in The Horse Dealer’s Daughter experiences the absence of love because she is left by her parents who have passed away and her sister who has married. The loneliness of Mabel also makes her alienate from her surrounding. The death of her parents makes Mabel live in their memory and it makes Mabel become rigid in thinking. Mabel also becomes a person who does not want to listen to others’ opinion. She becomes an indifferent girl who does not care about her surrounding and her brothers who live with her. Her carelessness to her brothers makes Mabel become a person who is money-oriented. She uses money to replace the inexistence of people she loves. The death of her parents also makes Mabel stubborn. Because she feels there is no person who loves her, it makes her become aggressive when she finds out there is a man who cares about her. She wants someone who can make her needs of love and belonging become completely. Olenka, Emily, and Mabel have same one similar causal factor of the absence of love they experience, that is their parents’ death. Besides, after analyzing the problem formulation, the writer finds that the three main characters become alienated from surrounding after experience the absence of love in their life. All of them become not sociable towards their surrounding. Olenka and Emily also experience three similar influences. Olenka and Emily live in sorrow, do not care about themselves, and become unfriendly. Besides, Mabel and Olenka have one similarity in which they become rigid in thinking. The absence of love makes them difficult to think about new ways and ideas in their life.

B. Suggestions

In this part, there are two suggestions in analyzing the three short stories The Darling, A Rose for Emily, and The Horse Dealers’ Daughter. The first suggestion describes the suggestions for the next researchers, which may help them in analyzing those three short stories. Furthermore, there is also the suggestion for teaching implementation by using the short stories, especially in teaching reading for advanced level by using literary works. A part of the short stories is used as the material.

1. Suggestions for the Next Researchers