likes to sing. From the explanation above, we can conclude that Mrs. Wright has a cheerful characteristic.
But, in this case, we are talking about the characteristic of Mrs. Wright when she was young before her marriage with Mr. Wright. After the marriage, her
characteristic does no longer exist because of the dominance of her husband that totally changes the way she lives. In patriarchal society, the marriage affects women
position in family which makes them to have a restricted area of socialization and be secluded from the environment. This is the reason of the change of Mrs. Wright’s
characteristic. It shows that Mrs. Wright is inferior in her own family because her life is controlled by her husband.
c. Sociable Mrs. Wright
Mr. Hale’s words also tell us the other characteristic of Mrs. Wright, which is sociable. When Mrs. Wright was young, she joined the choir as one of the town girls
singing. It means that she made a lot of friends by joining a choir group in town. It can be seen from what Mrs. Hale’s said about her.
MRS. HALE. …when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in
the choir. But that —oh, that was thirty years ago. This all was to take?
McQuade, 1999: 984 The quotation above shows that Mrs. Wright has willing to engage in activites
with other people in her society by joining a choir group. As a part of choir group, the members should have sociable and friendly characteristic to be accepted in a team
because choir group is not an individual work, it needs a cooperative ability in order to work together as a team. From the explanation above, we can conclude that Mrs.
Wright is a sociable person too because she was a part of a choir group and accepted there.
This characteristic is also owned by Mrs. Wright when she was young and does no longer exist after the marriage. In patriarchal society, the marriage also
affects the job-differentiated between men and women. It results the women to work in their golden cage house which make them have no friend and being no more a
sociable person. It shows their inferiority because their lives are controlled by the men too.
d. Curious Mrs. Hale
The other characteristic of Mrs. Hale that can be found in the story is curious. The event that shows her characteristic is when the men do the investigation upstairs
and not include the women to it, she still doing the ‘unofficial’ investigation by herself. It means that she is curious about the motives of the murder too.
MRS. HALE. …wonder how they are finding things upstairs? I hope she had
it a little more tidy there. You know, it seems kind of sneaking. Locking her up in town and then coming out here and trying to get her own house
to turn against hers McQuade, 1999: 984
We can see that Mrs. Hale is a curious person because she wants to know
everything around her. She is curious about what the men findings, about Mrs. Wright’s mind, about the sewing and everything around her.
MRS. PETERS. She was piecing a quilt. She brings the large sewing basket, and they look at the bright pieces.
MRS. HALE. It’s log cabin pattern. Pretty, isn’t it? I wonder if she was goin’
to quilt it or just knot it? Footsteps have been heard coming down the stairs. The Sheriff enters, followed by Hale and the County Attorney.
McQuade, 1999: 985 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
