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Consider the following passage from the novel, Elizabeth speaking to Hikoro:
“Women enter their husbands’ lives, Hikoro—all around the world. It doesn’t happen the other way round. We are the ones who adapt. Not them. They don’t know how to do it. They don’t see why they should do it.” (98)
How does this passage exemplify the discrepancy between Elizabeth’s perspective of life and Hikoro’s? How is it possible for two women living in the same time and place to see the realities of life and society so differently?
Elizabeth’s perspective here exemplifies the norm of the time (and to a lesser extent, this still happens today), a woman’s existence in a very unchecked...
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