as a mysterious woman or complex woman at the end of the story. She has a broad relationship to the other.
b. Summer is Restricted and Organized Woman
If the first time Summer describes as a free woman and she does not to be attach with man, but after Summer‟s representation deconstructed Summer is being a restricted
woman. According to Oxford Dictionary, restricted means
controlled by rules or laws.
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One of the example of Summer as restricted woman is that when Summer give the confession about herself as a person who is very neat and organized.
Summer: I was very neat and organized From Summer‟s confession above, she wants her life to be organized. Because of that
she needs the rule or some orderness to make herself neat and organized. When she explain herself as an organized and neat person, it means Summer is kind of a structure woman.
She has a „clear‟ structure of life. However, when she meets Tom and has a free relationship without put label on it, Summer does not feel safe and the relationship ended by
Summer leaving Tom and marry other man. Summer‟s decision to get married at the end of the story is one of Summer‟s
characteristic as restricted woman. By having husband and getting married it means she brings back the rules into her life again. Summer leaves free live and being settle with marry other
man. She involves the rules and norms in her life which describes her as restricted woman. When Summer explains herself as very neat and organized woman, it reflects through
her apartment. Her apartment is very neat and organized. Summer lives in small apartment; Summer‟s apartment is very simple. There‟s no sense of „anything goes‟ that reflect her
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2005, p. 1295
postmodern representation. Everything is very structured, there are no characteristic of postmodern house which has many feature, such as juxtaposition of style: blend traditional,
contemporary, and newly invented forms.
c. Summer Follows Western Value Systems
At the first of the story Summer as postmodern representation describes re- evaluate western value systems Love, Marriage, Popular Culture. Western value
system is something correlate to modern values. Modernism refers to a certain period of great change in the weste
rn world. Modern societies through the means of „grand narrative‟ or „master narrative‟ every belief system or ideology has its grand narrative.
Whereas modernism places faith the ideas, values, beliefs, cultures and norms of the west, postmodern rejects western values and beliefs as only a small part of the human
experience and often rejects such ideas, beliefs, cultures and norms. Summer re-
evaluates the meaning of „Love‟ with does not give the label on her relationship. There‟s sense of „anything goes‟ in her relationship that does not quite go
where it will. However at the end Summer leaves Tom and she questioned the relationship.
Summer : I think we should stop seeing each other.
Summer : I mean this thing. What are we doing?
I mean, is this normal? Tom
: Norm — I—I don‟t know. I don‟t care.
Im happy. Arent you happy? Summer
: Youre happy? Tom
: You‟re not? Summer
: All we do is argue From the dialog above, Summer at the end questioned the status of the
relationship. Moreover Summer thinks that the relationship that she has is abnormal.
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