does that thing because she does not want to lose a man whom she loves like her father leaves her because of death.
The man himself lay in the bed. For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently
once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What
was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the
pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust p.312.
Emily does not want Homer Baron to love others. In the story, the author explains that Emily’s neighbors assume that Baron is gay. It can be concluded that Emily
murders Homer Baron because she does not want Homer Baron to love another person. Emily becomes a person who will do anything even to murder to defend
someone she loves.
3. Influences on Mabel’s Behavior
At the first part, Mabel in Lawrence’s The Horse Dealer’s Daughter is characterized as an interesting young woman, who is affectionate, lovable, but
fragile. Mabel experiences the absence of love in her life repeatedly. She is left by her mother, father, and her sister. Her father leaves her because of the death. Her
mother also passed away when she was fourteen. Her sister goes away from their house because she has married. Mabel just lives with her three brothers. The fact
of the death of her father and mother can be seen as follows: And she lived in the memory of her mother, who had died when she was
fourteen, and whom she had loved. She had loved her father, too, in a different way, depending upon him, and feeling secure in him, until at age
of fifty-four he married. And then she had set hard against him. Now he had died and left them all hopelessly in debt p.471.
The death of her parents makes her life become incomplete. That condition affects her psychological condition. Her needs as human being are not complete.
The human needs that cannot be fulfilled completely in her life are the needs of safety and security and also the needs of love and belonging. Her needs of safety
and security are affected because Mabel feels secure in her father’s side, so when her father passed away, she feels nothing else for her to make her secure. As
quoted by Kalish, Maslow states that everyone needs to feel safe from such harm as meeting with physical violence, has a thing he she values taken away, or loses
the care of her his parents or other protectors 43. Mabel’s love and belonging needs are affected by the death of her parents
and the marriage of her sister because those conditions make her lose attention, care, and love from her family. As what Maslow says which is quoted by Kalish
that the needs of love and belonging include motives such as love and affection and as this need dominates, we feel a desire for friends, family, and social contact
44. The death of Mabel’s parents and the marriage of her sister are included in
the deprivation of love. Hurlock states that one of the most common long-term effects of deprivation of affection on personality is emotional insecurity, a feeling
of not belonging of being unable to count on the affection of significant people 213. The feeling of insecure after the death of her parents shows that deprivation
of love has affected her life. The absence of love makes Mabel alienate from surrounding, rigid in thinking, indifference, money-oriented, stubborn, and
aggressive. Those effects are explained below.
