My View On "The Horse dealer's Daughter"

       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 his nerves". We would suggest that Mable's suicide was not only an instinct of saving others as a doctor but also a stimulation of the love of the story. Then,after resuscitating Mable,Jack brought her back to the deserted house, striped off her wet and stinking clothes, and wrapped her in blankets, she felt her responsible to ask whether he loved her and she thought that he must in love with her. But the fact was Jack felt free to undress Mable since he was a doctor and he never looked her more than two eyes before. When she lunged toward him and clutched his legs, murmured "You love me. I know you love me, I know." This was embarrasingly silly, yet inexplicably, he kissed her. At that moment, Jack felt some love with her,suddenly he recognized his obligation towards her. Last, she recognized with horror that he did not love her at all. But Jack tole her"I want you , I want to marry you, we'er going to be married, quickly, quickly---tomorrow if I can." Jack, the country doctor whose life up to this moment had been full of sunlight and promise, had to quickly marry the horse-dealer's daughter so he would not have time for common sense to change his mind.