Summer is Restricted and Organized Woman

Summer can‟t stand any longer in her free relationship, so she decides to leave Tom and thinks the relationship isn‟t normal. When Summer questioned the relationship by saying „is this normal?‟ it means she doubts her free relationship. She thinks about norm. She believes that the relationship between her and Tom is not part of normal thing, so she seeks the „normal‟ relationship by leaving Tom and marry other man. When Summer gets married, she follows western values systems, whereas modernism places faith the idea, values, culture, and norms. She believes western value systems can brings some prosperity and normality into her. So she comeback to the big rule or „Grand Narrative‟ which is reflects her as modernist. Summer modernist representation known when she is often wears vintage style. Summer‟s vintage style reflects the other and the real side of Summer as a person who is still oriented to a modern. Vintage also knows as modern fashion. Vintage clothing is a generic term for new or second hands garments originating from previous era. The other vintage is euphemism for “old” clothes. It is usually called modern or contemporary fashion. When Summer follows western value systems it reflects to her decision for bringing back herself into regulation and getting married to other man. Also, it reflects to her vintage stuff. She chooses the dress which full of politeness. There are some norms in Summer‟s lives which is bringing back her into western value systems is that something correlate to modern values.

d. Summer as a Sensitive Woman

At the beginning of the story, Summer describes as heartless and emotionless woman, but in the end of the story Summer shows her real character as a sensitive woman. She is not woman who does not have the emotion, but she has it. The emotion and sensitivity of Summer reflects when Summer and Tom go to the movies and watch “The Graduate”, seen Dustin Hoffman as Ben run to the church, seen Katherine Ross as Elaine decide to leave her family and fiancé and run off with Ben, and then seen them sitting on the car, she still in her wedding dress. Summer‟s emotion emphasizes when she looks the marriage on that movie, she‟s real sobbing and Tom cannot guess for what happen to Summer then, but Summer cannot hides her real emotion to Tom, include her affection and her deep feeling to one thing, named marriage. In conclusion, Summer‟s real character is insecure. She is very sensitive and full of emotion. When she being free it‟s only part of her way to seeks the security, especially emotional security for herself, but she fails to get security by being free. Summer tries to make a great wall of protection. She creates the wall of distance, of space, of casual which Summer often hide behind. That wall is only some protections for Summer to protect herself, and when Summer marry other man, she chooses for bringing back herself to the conventional way name marriage.

e. Summer Lives by Togetherness

Summer postmodern representation lives in her beliefs that say she does not believe in love and one right person. Moreover Summer thinks that love is only fantasy. But at the end of the story, there are some real character of Summer appears in that movie. One of the real Summer‟s character is that Summer is an insecure woman.