Inge is a Responsible Woman.

got no evidence. I think it’s better to forget about it. He’s your own father, Monika,” I counter, shocked at the suggestion.”p.49 As a sister, Inge gives advice to Monika, but it does not mean that she wants to take side with Karl. Inside, she has forgiven him to what he did to Inge. Inge has erased him from her life, she is trying to live her new life without being interrupted by her past. Therefore, Inge does not want to take revenge. Her maturity as a woman grows up as the time goes by.

4. Inge is a Responsible Woman.

In Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 1995: 1000 responsible means capable of being trusted; reliable and sensible. Inge is said to be a responsible woman since she always accepts all of the consequences to what she has chosen in her life. This could be seen when she is living with David and she finds herself is pregnant. As a young woman in her twenties, she could choose to free herself by aborting the fetus, but she has the responsibility to keep the baby. She chooses to have the baby with all of the consequences. Although the doctor agrees to help her doing abortion. She prefers to keep the baby. “I can arrange an abortion for you. Dr. Mauris says cautiously. I go tomato red. “No, of course I don’t want an abortion.”p.36 Her motherly feeling appears and tries to save the baby inside her womb. She chooses to keep it, although she is not ready yet to marry and so does with David. By taking a big decision to marry the man whom she does not love becomes the proof that she is responsible to her life and the baby’s inside. Inge is responsible to what happens in her life. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Besides responsible to her life, she is also responsible to her family. Although she had bad experience with her family, which she got oppressions not only from her step father, but also from her own mother and grandmother, she does not want to take revenge. Her grandmother, Mami is a typical of conventional woman. In Inge’s adolescent, she always treated unfairly by Mami. Mami always took side with her daughter, Lisl, she also blamed Inge to Lisl’s death. Although so, Inge never hates her grand mother, she does care for her and wants to take responsibility for her. This could be seen when Inge is getting married to David and Mami is coming. “Where are you living now Mami?” She cries. I have to bring her tissues before she can answer the question. “I’m living in Dandenongs with a German family. They have adopted me as their grandmother. I’ve lost my own family. I’m all alone.” She starts to cry again. “No, you haven’t. There still Monika and me.” “I never see you.” She says aggressively. “I’ll come and see you, I promise.”p.50 Inge feels sympathy to her old grand mother. Although she never got love from her grand mother, she still wants to take responsibility of her. As a grown-up woman she knows what to do to her old grand mother. As the time goes by, Inge has a baby girl. Here, her responsibility as a mother appears. When she gives birth to Lena, her daughter, she already swears in her heart to protect Lena from any kind of men in her surrounding. She does not want if her daughter has the same fate as hers, or her friends’. Having seen many kind of men in her life, Inge has the passion to protect her daughter, Lena so that she will grow up happily, not experiencing what she had in her adolescent. Inge also has different characteristic with David who seems to see something only from its usage and advantages. For David, work and family are important, but he never make the real decision in his life, including the matter of having a baby, and being a father. From the explanation above, it is clearly seen that as a woman Inge could be responsible to her life and also to her families. She is also responsible to what she has chosen in her life, she follows the pattern in her life with responsibility. Living in male-dominated world and being David’s wife does not make Inge feels inferior, but in fact she could prove that she is strong and she will be responsible to what she chooses in her life.

5. Inge is an Attractive Woman.