c. Personality traits 1. Affectionate
Emily has affection to her parents. She loves her parents very much. Her love to her parents can be shown when her father passed away. The death of
Emily’s father affects her condition. She suffers from a loss. After her father passed away, she goes out very little, because she wants to give an honor for her
father’s death p.308. She just goes to her father’s grave to pray for the peacefulness of her father. Emily affection can be proven through her respect to
her father who has passed away. She still gives her attention to her father’s grave. She wishes happiness for her father.
2. Stubborn
When Emily buys some poison in the drugstore, she wants to defend her opinion when she has a dialogue with the druggist. Although the druggist has
recommended some poisons to her, Emily still wants to buy arsenic, whereas the law requires people to tell the use of it, but she does not want to do that. Emily
never agrees with someone’s opinion, she likes arguing to defend her opinion. Her way to defend her opinion and her behavior who does not like to hear others’
comment show that Emily is a stubborn person. “Yes, Miss Emily. What kind? For rats and such? I’d recom—“
“I want the best you have. I don’t care what kind.” The druggist named several. “They’ll kill anything up to an elephant. But
what you want is—“ “Arsenic,” Miss Emily said. “Is that a good one?”
“Is…arsenic? Yes ma’am. But what you want—“ “I want arsenic” p.310.
3. Reclusive
Emily is reclusive because she does not want others know about her problem. She likes to hide her true feeling. When her father passed away, she
always looks rigid, but people know that she is suffering. She tries to cover what she feels inside. Emily hides her sadness in front of people in her town. She just
wants to show that she is strong and does not want other people know that she is brittle inside. The author shows that Emily is a reclusive person as follows:
She carried her head high enough—even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her
dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness p.310.
3. Mabel’s Characteristics as Described in The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
In this part, the writer describes the characteristics of Mabel as the main character in The Horse Dealer’s Daughter. As the protagonist, Mabel has big
contribution in the conflict and the changes as the story progresses.
a. Social traits
Mabel is a girl who lives with her three brothers. Her father and mother have passed away. Her father, Joseph Pervin has been a man of no education, who
has become the horse dealer. Her sister has married and lives with her husband. Mabel’s eldest brother named Joe is a man of thirty-three, broad and handsome.
Fred Henry, her second brother, is erect, clean-limbed, and alert. And Malcolm is the youngest, twenty-two years old, and has a fresh jaunty face. In her life, Mabel
loves her doctor, Jack Fergusson, who is also a friend of her brothers.
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