A Women’s Power
...d, 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 Emily” can also be interrupted in many different ways. Emily from “A Rose for Emily” is similar to Mabel from D.H. Lawrence’s “Horse Dealer’s Daughter”. Emily is a woman that knows what she is capable of and uses it to her advantage. Emily was born into and aristocratic family in Jefferson, Mississippi. Her father held her close to him and ruled her life. Her father believed no one was good enough for Emily to marry. When he died it was devastating for Emily but yet freed her to do as she wished. After her father’s death, Emily finally found someone she could love, Homer Barron. But as for Mr. Barron “…he liked men, and it was known that he drank with younger men in the Elks’ club- that he was not a marring man.” (Faulkner 79). She could not bear the humiliation that she might face, so like Mabel from “Horse Dealer’s Daughter”, Emily came up with a plan to save face. Emily was a “Lady”, the weaker sex not cable of any type of reason or logic, well at least the other townsmen thought of her this way. This “Lady” got away with not having to pay taxes for over ten years, so what else was she capable of and be able to get away with. For only Emily can go into a drug store and buy arsenic without giving a reason for intended use. When Emily’s house starts to smell and Mr. Barron is nev...