On The Sosukes’ Awakening Of Individuality And Hesitate In <Door>

Natsumesoseki is a Japanese literary master in modern time who has themonumental classic reputation of the "national writer". Natsumesoseki createdThe novel Trilogy in his medium literary career, including the 《Sansiro》 in1908,《From now on》 in1909and 《Door》in1910. Although there is no thesame protagonist and plot in this three fictions, themes of these fictions are coherent.《Door》narrates the tragic experiences of the couple named Sosuke,whichreveals a depressed and desolate atmosphere. The heroine named Oyone was thewife of Yasui originally, but she fell in love with Sosuke who is her husband’sfriend. When the hero saw Oyone at the first time，he couldn’t remove Amy’simage in his mind. Just as following their hearts, the true love between the newcouple as fierce wind blew them down. However, their love is a sin based onbetraying Ysui. Sadly, they did not comment against these accusatio ns bythemselves. They did really understand their sins. For pursuing a better life, theyescaped from pressure deriving from the moral tradition. Therefore, they stayedaway from happiness in the paradise. Be that as it may, they are always troubled bynightmare which is moral betrayal. In view of this situation, Natsumesosekicommented:"Comparing to the other person, this couple are living as ghosts with afeeling of unknown dread. Therefore, the relationship between this couple has aunique color."Comparing to these other couples, the most unfortunate thing is that they losttheir three children when they are premature. At the meantime, on one hand theheroine recognized herself as a cruel mother, on the other hand, she concealed thedivination from her husband for more than1year. All these feelings made her moredistressed. When they got along with each other Oyone always exposed her smile toSosuke, and she spoke to her husband in the tone as a modern female student. Evenso, there is a high degree of tension between this couple which made Amy(Oyone)could not told Sosuke the result from fortune teller. In a conclusion, this couple kepton suffering from losing their kids which made them far away from real happiness.We analyze the reason why Sosuke always showed his weakness and compromise in this chapter. For example, when he faced his aunt who asked tuitionfor his brother,he escaped. When he had to sell the byobo, and when he sufferedfrom losing his three children, he escaped again and again. Even though when Yasuiwas coming, he chose hiding himself in monastery. In all these events, Sosuke kepton showing his weakness and compromise, even faked illness as an excuse.Actually, he was escaping and compromising.