At the beginning of the story, Summer describes as heartless and emotionless woman, but in the end of the story Summer shows her real character as a sensitive
woman. She is not woman who does not have the emotion, but she has it. The emotion and sensitivity of Summer reflects when Summer and Tom go to
the movies and watch “The Graduate”, seen Dustin Hoffman as Ben run to the church,
seen Katherine Ross as Elaine decide to leave her family and fiancé and run off with Ben, and then seen them sitting on the car, she still in her wedding dress.
Summer‟s emotion emphasizes when she looks the marriage on that movie, she‟s real sobbing and Tom cannot guess for what happen to Summer then, but Summer cannot
hides her real emotion to Tom, include her affection and her deep feeling to one thing, named marriage.
In conclusion, Summer‟s real character is insecure. She is very sensitive and full of emotion. When she being free it‟s only part of her way to seeks the security,
especially emotional security for herself, but she fails to get security by being free. Summer tries to make a great wall of protection. She creates the wall of distance, of
space, of casual which Summer often hide behind. That wall is only some protections for Summer to protect herself, and when Summer marry other man, she chooses for
bringing back herself to the conventional way name marriage.
e. Summer Lives by Togetherness
Summer postmodern representation lives in her beliefs that say she does not believe in love and one right person. Moreover Summer thinks that love is only fantasy.
But at the end of the story, there are some real character of Summer appears in that
movie. One of the real Summer‟s character is that Summer is an insecure woman.
The real character of Summer is obviously appears when she pleased Tom to come into her room. Tom sees Summer‟s apartment, a place where the real character
appears. Summer
: You know, I dream sometimes about flying. It‟s starts out like I‟m running really, really fast, I‟m like superman. And the terrain starts
to get really rocky and sleep and then I‟m running so fast that my feet aren‟t even touching the ground, and it‟s like this amazing
realness. I‟m free, I‟m safe, then I realize... I‟m completely alone and then I wake up. . .
When Summer tells the story, her face is full of emotion, she sometimes closes her eyes and really feels insecure, then she cries, and sometime weeps her tears. In her
dream, Summer enjoys herself to be free. When she feels she is flying, she seems like a superhuman and it‟s kind of amazing realness. However on the other side Summer
realizes that she is completely alone and afraid. Summer‟s dream is one of the things that describe Summer‟s insecurity.
Although Summer enjoys herself to be free, but she not feels safe anymore when she being free. When Summer does not want to attached with man, she ignores serious
relationship, and in her opinion that she does not believe in love, it‟s only part of her
great effort to protect herself from the insecurity. In fact, the freedom that she seeks cannot bring security for herself, because Summer still feel alone and afraid.
D. Conclusions and Suggestions
“500 days of Summer” is romantic drama movie which describes the relationship between two people Tom and Summer in this postmodern era. The film
describes postmodern love story which never what people expect it to be. One character, Summer Finn, is the first woman character, as a central figure,
Summer Finn describes as a free and independent woman. She has “unusual” thought
