Summer is Emotionless Woman

Postmodern creates an emotionless individual. The people become more passive and ignorance. According to J. Baudrillard the culture is totally changed. These Cultural Revolution caused people to become passive, creating society as a „black hole‟ that absorb all the meaning, information, communication, etc. Those things make the society meaningless, they take their own way, and being pessimistic. 7

e. Summer Lives with her Beliefs

Postmodern people live with their own beliefs, language, and value. It is prove from their behavior and expression of postmodern people in daily life. Because of that, postmodern people do not think about the truth, they ignore the logic or systematic thought. Summer as a character with postmodern ideas or thoughts lives with her beliefs, languages, and her values, she does not wants to prove who‟s the most right, either she is right or other people is right. Postmodernist conclude “what‟s true for you may not be true for me”, encapsulates the postmodern idiom fairy well. As a character with postmodern ideas or thoughts, Summer lives with her beliefs. She does not believe in love and the one right person. Summer thinks that love is only fantasy. Postmodernist believe that the notion of the truth is contrived illusion. One of the most prevalent characteristic of postmodernism is the idea that there is no and can never be any kind of absolute truth. They say that the idea of the world‟s own story, the unified picture of reality, is an illusion. There is no such thing as the whole truth. 8 Postmodernist believe that the notion of the truth is contrived illusion. For postmodern people the truth is relative, depend on social context. Tom and Summer 7 Bernard Raho, SVD, Teori Sosiologi Modern Jakarta: prestasi pustakaraya, 2007, p. 208. 8 Michael Luntley, Reason, Truth and Self: the postmodern reconditioned London and New York: Routledge, 1995, p. 12. have a different point of view of about love and fate. Tom always believes in love and fate, but Summer Does not. as postmodernist who believe that truth is relative, Summer does not believe in love. Tom : Okay, but wait, waits. What happens if you fall in love? Summer : Summer laughs Well, you don‟t believe that. do you? Tom : It‟s love. It‟s not Santa Claus Summer : Well, what does that the word even mean? I‟ve been in relationship, and I don‟t think I‟ve ever seen it . . . There‟s no such thing as love. It‟s fantasy. When Summer said “well, you don‟t believe that, do you?” it means, truth cannot be known in the context of postmodernist thinking, and those who claim to know truth are either lying and it sounds foolish. For postmodern people, the truth is relative, depend on social context.

2. Deconstruction Analysis of Summer’s Representation

a. Summer has Good Relationship

One of the most important things to deconstruct Summer‟s representation is through the relationship. Even though Summer has complex relationship with Tom, but overall she has good relationship with all her friends. Summer has many friends. It proves when Summer makes a party in her roof top of apartment building. There are so many people attend in her party, include Tom. There Tom sees that Summer little bit ignore him, Summer prefer spent her time by talking to her friends than spent her time with Tom. Summer looks enjoy the time when she spent time together with all her friends Summer‟s good relation reflects the other side and the real side of Summer as a lovable and humble woman. She‟s not described as a mysterious woman or complex woman at the end of the story. She has a broad relationship to the other.

b. Summer is Restricted and Organized Woman

If the first time Summer describes as a free woman and she does not to be attach with man, but after Summer‟s representation deconstructed Summer is being a restricted woman. According to Oxford Dictionary, restricted means controlled by rules or laws. 9 One of the example of Summer as restricted woman is that when Summer give the confession about herself as a person who is very neat and organized. Summer: I was very neat and organized From Summer‟s confession above, she wants her life to be organized. Because of that she needs the rule or some orderness to make herself neat and organized. When she explain herself as an organized and neat person, it means Summer is kind of a structure woman. She has a „clear‟ structure of life. However, when she meets Tom and has a free relationship without put label on it, Summer does not feel safe and the relationship ended by Summer leaving Tom and marry other man. Summer‟s decision to get married at the end of the story is one of Summer‟s characteristic as restricted woman. By having husband and getting married it means she brings back the rules into her life again. Summer leaves free live and being settle with marry other man. She involves the rules and norms in her life which describes her as restricted woman. When Summer explains herself as very neat and organized woman, it reflects through her apartment. Her apartment is very neat and organized. Summer lives in small apartment; Summer‟s apartment is very simple. There‟s no sense of „anything goes‟ that reflect her 9 Anonymous, Oxford Advanced Learner‟s Dictionary 7th edition UK: Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 1295