Love and Women Empowerment

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"Horse-Dealer's Daughter" illustrates the renewed strength that Mabel creates after she had been deprived for a long time of her right to make her own decisions, and be independent from her patriarchal family. Elizabeth of "Odor of Chrysanthemums" also experienced women empowerment at the initial part of the story, but loses this as she realizes that her proud character was the reason why her marriage became unhappy and did not work out until her husband's death. The themes of love and women empowerment are discussed in context with the two short stories by D. H Lawrence, including an analysis of how the character's portrayal illustrates these themes.

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"A "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" show how Mabel, the protagonist, was illustrated as a woman deprived of a good life and is considered by her brothers and her society as a functional and self-reliant individual. The author's description of Mabel illustrates how she is portrayed by her society: "Mabel had no associates of her own sex? She regularly went to church, she attended to her father. She had suffered badly during the period of poverty. Now, for Mabel, the end had come. She would follow her own way just the same. She would always hold the keys of her own situation." Lawrence's use of Mabel's character as a decisive and functional female is actually the external appearance of what Mabel wants to display in public; in reality, she is a woman beaten down by the pressures and limited opportunities society and her family had given her. Her family's descent to poverty and the constant reprimanding of her brothers about her made her decide the "keys of her own situation" through committing suicide."

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