The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
In “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter”, Dr. Jack Fergusson risks his life to save a drowning girl named Mabel. He foolishly wades into the deep murky water knowing that logically (head), he cannot swim. Yet out of instinct (heart), Jack cannot let this girl drown. In saving her, she was ironically convinced that he was in love with her. “You love me,” she murmured, in strange transport, yearning and triumphant and confident. “You love me. I know you love me, I know” (Roberts, 401). Ironically, Dr Fergusson had no idea that something like this would happen. “He was amazed, bewildered, and afraid, He had never thought of loving her. He had never wanted to love her. When he rescued her and restored her. He was a doctor and she was a patient. He had had no single personal thought of her (Roberts, 401). Although this idea has never occurred to him, he eventually comes around and begins to say that he indeed loves her. Can a simple gaze into a lost and suppress human being change the feeling for one that had no intentions in the first place? Dr. Fergusson says he loves her because logically (head) he didn’t want Mabel to lose her sanity once again, this is not real love. “You love me?” she said, rather faltering. “Ye
Mabel, growing up independent, motherless, and ridiculed by her brothers has now lost her father. Financially she is in trouble. Mabel thinks of herself as “too awful” to be loved and finds that when Dr. Fergusson declares over and over that he wants her and that he loves her, she is more scared about that than of him not wanting her. “After the kiss, her eyes again slowly filed with tears. She sat still, away from, him with her face drooped aside, and her hands folded in her lap. The tears fell very slowly. There was complete silence” (Roberts 402). The lost of both her parents and the unkindness of her brothers had brought her insanity. Maybe a reason why she committed suicide was because she wasn’t loved at home. The father had left the family in debt, and the family will soon have to leave their house and move somewhere else. When asked which path she would pursue, she did not answer. Mabel is psychologically and emotionally unstable. From the 3 reasons that I’d just explained, I don’t see why this can be called real love. Though Jack was indeed sexual attracted to Mabel, he knew that expressing it would bring him shame to his profession. How many guys out there would pass out on a girl that was willing to give in? His urges for Mabel was indeed there, yet he wanted to avoid it as much as possible. Dr. Jack Fergusson willingness to say “yes” was to avoid Mabel to do ludicrous things. He didn’t want to ruin Mabel’s
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