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deedeemegadoodoo's review
3.0
I read The Quilt for my Japanese Literature: Women in Love graduate course. I think maybe I don't understand the underlying purposefulness, but from just finishing this read, I did not like the main character. He was a hypocrite most of the time, going back and forth between idolizing modern Meiji women/the future/ young people in general and the "old ways," and "old tradition."
Yoshiko was not much of a character. It was sad how her life and her love were dictated by the men she trusted.
Even Tanaka, the guy she fell in love with and the guy she fell from grace for, seemed like a tool bag who didn't do much.
Hopefully once I go into further analysis of the story and perhaps get help from secondary resources, I'll appreciate The Quilt more, but if I had to sum it up, I would just say it was way too long for being the bleak story that it was.
Yoshiko was not much of a character. It was sad how her life and her love were dictated by the men she trusted.
Even Tanaka, the guy she fell in love with and the guy she fell from grace for, seemed like a tool bag who didn't do much.
Hopefully once I go into further analysis of the story and perhaps get help from secondary resources, I'll appreciate The Quilt more, but if I had to sum it up, I would just say it was way too long for being the bleak story that it was.