Francesca and Her Opportunity of Career

before meeting Robert Kincaid, she would not have dressed this way anytime Waller, p.25. She starts to change the way she dressed up. She wants to show her ‘thing’ to a man, in this case Robert. Her basic characteristic as a woman has returned, she does something to attract a man. She does it in front of Robert, not Richard, because he concerns about her, while Richard never pays attention for that thing. Inside her mind, Francesca has a thought to be herself. She thinks about what to do in order to get her happiness without being criticized by the small town society. It needed a good rubbing with silver polish, she thought, then chastised herself for being caught up in the trivia of small town life she had silently rebelled against through the years Waller, p.33. She realizes that she lives in a social community with their conventional rule. On the other hand, she is a complete person with her rights to be independent and is not made for command. Finally, she makes out her thought she keeps for a long time in the form of rebellion toward society’s judgment. She finally decides to break the rule of society around her. But as a woman who has been living in a traditional society with their traditional thought, she is still wondering about the risk and consequences. She directed him--casually, she hoped--to park the pick up around behind the house. What she didn’t need was Richard to come home and have one of the neighbors men to say, “Hey, Dick, havin’ some work done at the place? Saw a green pick up there last week. Knew Frannie was home so I didn’t bother to check on it.” Waller, p.37. Again, her self-respect convinces her to go on and ignore her fear and doubtfulness. What is more important for her at that moment is to fulfill her selfishness which is pursuing happiness. The only chance for Francesca to get what she wants is when she asks Richard to make her a private bathroom upstairs. She took him upstairs to the bathroom she had insisted Richard put in when the children were growing up. That was one of the few demands in which she had stood firm. She liked long hot baths in the evening, and she wasn’t going to deal with teenagers tromping around in her private spaces. Richard used the other bath, said he felt uncomfortable with all the feminine things in hers. “Too fussy,” were his words Waller, p.86. That is the part where Francesca wants to fulfill her needs to have a private space. It is a proof that although she always sacrifices herself for another member of her family, she is an individual who has her own will and be with herself with no one disturbs her. Francesca’s life is a hard life. As a farmer’s wife she is required to work in a field. She is a taught woman to do a job which in common is done by men. On the other side, she is a woman who loves beauty and wants to dresses up herself with woman’s things. Next she looked for a new summer dress from a shop downtown. She found one, light pink with thin straps. It scooped down in back, did the same in front rather dramatically so the tops of her breasts were exposed, and gathered around her waist with a narrow sash. And new white sandals, expensive ones, flat-heeled, with delicate handy-work on the straps Waller, p.87. There is a time in which she is able to fulfill her desire to be a woman completely. She tries to satisfy herself by giving herself the things she needs that make her look pretty. In her everyday life, Francesca’s routine is closely related to the masculinity. Her occupation as a farmer is actually not appropriate with her basic characteristic as a woman, feminine PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI