a. Nurturing
Pilar is a woman who grows in her lover‟s shadow. She has a huge desire to meet her childhood friend after eleven years they are separated. They just share
their experience through a letter. One day, in his letter, the man asks Pilar to come to a small group in Madrid, the place where the man gives a lecture. Pilar is very
enthusiastic to prepare herself to meet him again. Although she finds some information that her lover has a willingness to enter a seminary, but she goes to
come in his sermon. That Pilar is a nurturing woman can be analyzed from one of the situations
when her lover is giving a sermon and many people gather around him. Suddenly, two women say to Pilar about her lover. It is stated as follows that her reaction
represents her as a nurturing woman. “He‟s giving us back what was ours,” said a woman seated next to me.
A strange thing to say. “What is he giving back?” I asked.
“What was stolen from us. Religion.” Coelho, 1994:5
The above quotation shows that Pilar feels strange when they discuss about her lover and it is very rare to be heard by Pilar. Pilar keeps on questioning that
woman‟s statement, this is strange that the man gives back their religion. Therefore, after the sermon ends critically Pilar meets her lover and she honestly
asks her lover about that. It can be seen through the quotation as follows that her speech represents her as a nurturing woman.
“Yes, before your lecture, a woman said that you were giving her back what had been hers. What did she mean?”
“Oh, that‟s nothing.”
“But it‟s important to me. I don‟t know anything about your life; I‟m even surprised t
o see so many people here.” He just laughe
d, and then he started to turn away to answer other people‟s questions.
“Wait,” I said, grabbing his arm. “You didn‟t answer me.” “I don‟t think it would interest you, Pilar.”
“I want to know anyway” Coelho, 1994:10. Based on the quotation above, it can be noticed that Pilar is a nurturing woman;
she has a willingness to ask her lover the meaning of her conversation with two women that she meets. Pilar shows her caring to her lover by asking the life of her
lover during they are separated. Pilar wants to know his life and Pilar tries to understand the life of his lover.
The writer finds that Pilar is a nurturing woman, it can be analyzed from her speech and her reaction
. Pilar‟s speech shows that she needs a clear explanation from the man, she asks the ba
ckground of the woman‟s statement. Then, Pilar asks to her lover although the man tries to avoid to answer Pilar‟s
question but she still asks to her lover until he answer it. That Pilar is a nurturing woman can be seen from her thought. It is stated
as follows. I spend day after day with my texts and notebooks, making the superhuman
effort just to purchase my own servitude , I thought. Why do I want that
job? What does it offer to me as a human being, a woman? Nothing I wasn‟t born to spend my life behind a desk, helping judges
dispose of their cases Coelho, 1994: 25. From the above quotation, Pilar shows her thought that she has her own definition
of a caring woman who always has a willingness to help each other. Pilar realizes that to work behind a desk does not represent herself because she thought that she
was born to help other people and take care of people.
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