My Review on the Horse Dealer's Daughter
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My Review on the Horse Dealer's Daughter
This is a very good story that after reading, I learn many things from it, especially symbolism.At the beginning of this short story,the old horse dealer, died and left nothing but debt and threatening to his four children.The three brothers managed to find a way out for themselves but none of them would like to take care of their little sister,Mable. Later,the depressed girl committed suicide in a pond but was saved by Dr.Ferguson,which drew the two youth into a romance love together.
At first, I think Mable took her advantage of the situation by expressing her love and convinding Jack that he loved her as well, in order to obtain the comfortable lifestyle that she once lived. But with the development of the story, you will have another view to see that it was the mystirious of love between the two dramatist personae. First of all, Mable wished to be glorified like her mother was becuase that she was ashamed of her poverty and no longer wanted to face the townspeople. The young doctor, Jack Ferguson, who was a friend of Mable's brother Fred, "as a matter of fact, it excited him, the contact with the rough,strongly-feeling people was a stimulant applied direct to