her father’s death, Mabel still visits her father’s cemetery and always prays for her father.
One day, Mabel’s mother passed away. The incident shocks Mabel because her mother is the one who she loves very much besides her father. She
lives in the memory of her mother p.471. She always remembers with her mother who has passed away, because everything that her mother has done in her
life gives her an impression. Her memory about her mother, who has passed away, shows her love and affection towards her mother.
2. Lovable
Mabel is a person who is easy to make another person loves her. When at the first time Mabel meets his doctor, Jack Fergusson, the doctor is not interested
in her, he just considers Mabel as his patient, and he has duty to take care of her. But, because Jack Fergusson saves Mabel from committing suicide, Mabel falls in
love in him, and she is able to change the care of Dr. Fergusson into a love towards her. It can be seen as follows:
She looked at him again, with the same supplication of powerful love, and that some transcendent, frightening light of triumph. In view of the
delicate flame which seemed to come from her face like a light, he was powerless. And yet he had never intended. And something stubborn in him
could not give way 475.
Dr. Fergusson never thinks that he will love her, but Mabel has the power to make the doctor does not aware that he has loved her. She feels that this condition is not
him, when suddenly he cares of Mabel in different way, not because Mabel is his
patient. His pity to Mabel brings him to love her deeply. Mabel’s sight, action, and utterance affect Dr. Fergusson to love her.
“Why are you crying?” he asked in an altered voice. She looked up at him, and behind her tears the consciousness of her
situation for the first time brought a dark look of shame to her eyes. “I’m not crying, really,” she said, watching him, half frightened.
He reached his hand, and softly closed it on her bare arm. “I love you I love you” he said in a soft, low vibrating voice, unlike
himself p.476.
3. Fragile
Mabel needs love of another person in her life. Mabel is a person who needs support from others to motivate her. The most important people in her life
are her father and mother. Mabel feels secure in them. After her parents passed away, her motivation in life decreases, because she does not have a person to rely
on beside her parents. Mabel lives with her brothers who do not have attention to her. Whereas, Mabel is a person who needs a love and affection to fill her needs
of love and belonging as human being. Her fragileness is shown when her parents passed away. She becomes a person who is mindless and does not have
orientation in life p. 471.
B. The Influences of the Absence of Love towards the Main Characters’ Behavior
At the previous part, the writer has discussed about the characteristics of Olenka, Emily, and Mabel as the main characters. In this part, the writer discuss
es how the absence of love which is experienced by those three main characters gives impacts to their characteristics and then influences their behavior. Maslow
