A Womens Power
Women have been suppressed in our society since Adam and Eve, but yet women have always managed to advance and reach their goals using the same exact energy that was suppressing them. The reason that women can do this is because their abilities and intensions are underestimated. Whether women use deception, manipulation, and fraudulence or if their intentions are pure, honest, and sincere, they are able to achieve their goals. Mabel from D.H Lawrence's "Horse Dealer's Daughter" and Emily from William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily" are two strong characters that use their intelligence and the fact that they are underestimated as women, to achieve their own personal goals.
D.H Lawrence's short story, "Horse Dealer's Daughter", can be interpreted in many different ways. Mabel from "Horse Dealer's Daughter" is a lady whose family and home environment is destroyed financially. Money makes Mabel feel good as D.H. Lawrence explained in "Horse Dealer's Daughter" "
the sense of money has kept her proud, confident. [
] But so long as there was money, the girl felt herself established, and brutally proud, reserved." (590). Once Mabel was financially burden what better way to be rich again than to marry a doctor, it is her way to survive and feel alive again. So Mabel uses her intellection and comes up with a plan to commit suicide in front of Dr. Fergusson, so he could jump in after her and save her without using any logic. Ironically Dr. Fergusson can not swim, yet he still goes in after Mabel risking his own life. Once Dr. Fergusson stopped acting on impulse and started to think thing through, he was actually afraid of her. Mabel was manipulating Dr. Fergusson, she was "passionately kissing his knees [
]" (Lawrence 594), as she was asking him if he loved her. What could Dr. Fergusson do? He could only answer out of guilt and with no self-control because the power she held over him was very strong.
William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for...
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