Theme

LOVE

The theme that we found in The Jade Bracelet is love.  The love is between Siew May and her grandmother. it is shown when Siew May always looking for her grandmotherfrom the beginning of the story till the end of the story. At the beginning, after played 'masak - masak' with the twins, she will start looking for her grandmother.
another evidence is when she becomes very anxious when Ah Chong said that her grandmother is going to die. she was worried if her grandmother will trully leave her.then, at the temple, during the cremation of her grandmother, she started to wonder where is the presence of her grandmother and insisted on going home because she worried that her grandmother might be waiting for her alone at home. despite of the fact that her grandmother was cremated in front of her own two eyes, she still look for her.

this theme was also found in the short story The Rose For Emily.

Emily loved her late father dearly. When her father passed away, she resisted to accept the fact that her beloved father was gone forever. She stayed home for three days and she kept the dead body of her father with her. She did not allow the villagers to come in and buried her father. It was only after she got the enforcement from the law then she allowed the people to come and organize the funeral for her father. another love was shown when she met the love of her life, Homer Barron. she take his life for fear that he would leave her. then she actually kept that rotting corpse in her house for years.

in the short story The Lamb To The Slaughter,

It was shown at the character of Mrs Maloney who loved her husband dearly. She loved everything about him. She would waited for him to come home from work every single day. it is okay for her to do the same routine all over again as long as she could be with her hubby. When her husband told her that he wanted a divorce, she could not believe it. for a while, she pretend that she did not hear a thing. It was a complete denial for her as she love her husband so much. because of her love, she was afraid to lose him and decide that only the death can make them apart. It was until one point that her husband did not allow her to prepare him a dinner that she act so spontaneously by hitting him to death. Then she satisfied by losing that way.