Abstract

The world is too complex to explain and deconstruct without a thorough objective, fair, and deep research. Simplification of meaning becomes the alternative to thorough research. Something would be easier to understand if people could make the meaning simple. It is easier to understand if a case that involve a man as a perpetrator and especially the woman as a victim is a case of patriarchy. But there are many factors to be considered in order to judge a problematical case. This is the case for the short story Storm by Mcknight Malmar, the story suggest that it was liberating for female to given up and left to seek a better love. It is a good solution if the lover or in this case the husband is an evil person with evil personality. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method analysis to deconstruct the myth of male dominated patriarchal tyranny in the story. Using the reader-response theory can be usefully integrated with narrative psychology by situating personal narratives at the top of an individual’s knowledge hierarchy.


Keywords: Patriarchy, Male, Female, Tyranny, Simplification