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.
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
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