When her parents are still alive, Mabel is such a very nice girl. She lives in prosperity. Everything is available, food, clothes, large and good house. She has
many servants to serve the family such as cleaning the house, preparing the food, and taking care of the horses. The servants have done everything. Mabel lives as a
princess in her family. Mabel’s close relationship with her parents, especially her mother, makes her live in a perfect life with a love of her parents.
Joseph Pervin, the father of the family, had been a man of no education, who had become a fairly large horse dealer. The stables had been full of
horses; there was a great turmoil and come-and-go of horses and of dealers and grooms. Then the kitchen was full of servants p.471.
b. Physical Appearance
Mabel is an interesting young woman, but she is very silent. Mabel has a good appearance. She is a well-grown girl when her parents are still alive. After
they passed away, Mabel has no one to take care of her. Her brothers do not care about her. They are always busy with their own manner, especially if it is related
with the horse. “The girl was alone, a rather short, sullen looking young woman of twenty
seven. She did not share the same life as her brother. She would have been good-looking, cave for the impassive fixity of her face, “bull-dog” as her
brothers called her” p.467.
c. Personality traits 1. Affectionate
Mabel loves her father very much, when her father is still alive, she always feels secure with the existence of her father p.471. She never feels worry about
anything. Her life always depends on her father until her father passed away. After
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
