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Spring Storm

Mori Yoko (Japan)

Pronounce; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZpoX3G8Mc

A Student Analysis https://prezi.com/ofcfmi-ztnm2/analysis-of-quotspring-stormquot-and-quotwork-and-freedomquot/

Letter From Tokyo

By Kunio Francis Tanabe September 5, 1993

Yoko Mori, who died of cancer on July 6 at age 52, was a popular writer of trendy romances set in the fancier parts of Tokyo or in Mediterranean resorts; she was also the translator of Alexandra Ripley's Scarlett, the 1991 sequel to Gone With the Wind, which briefly made it to the top of the bestseller list here in January.

Through her essays and novels, which her reading public consumed voraciously, Mori cultivated a taste for Western culture and sensibility. "To me, an ideal woman is someone like Carmen or Scarlett O'Hara," she wrote in one of her essays. She exhorted her readers to be more audacious in matters of love, to follow passion to the hilt -- something that not many Japanese women, or men, are prone to do. Since her first novel, The Affair, appeared 14 years ago, her popularity, especially among middle-aged urban women, was assured. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1993/09/05/letter-from-tokyo/dcac3df3-4eca-45fe-b5e3-4433b5610b69/?utm_term=.0a0896c4fdc5

There is a nod to feminism in this story when the woman accepts self-effacement in order for her male counterpart to remain. Of course, her action is not feminist, but her self-denial illustrates such a need.

The story shows a young woman beginning a potentially superior career in the acting. In a male -dominating society, she sublimates herself by lying to her husband. But she has already started to change so this behavior is not expected to continue.

Her acting is a tool for releasing her inner self which she doubts. Ultimately, with success, she has the capacity to reach self-actualization…but without her husband.

Obviously, the storm outside symbolizes the storm inside between man and wife. It is Spring – a time of new beginnings and growth.

Notice the image of stair and elevator. One is slower and steady; the other is straight up. She must take the more demanding of the two, in the rain without covering.