Comparing Kiku's Return To The US
Misleading young women who hope for luxury and comfort, a picture bride’s dark reality traps women into living a lonesome and bleak life. Filled with hope, women come to America to marry men who they only know by a picture. Desperate not to work again and to get away from her small village, Hana advocates that she should go to the United States to marry Taro. Like Hana, Kiku is a picture bride and contemplates how she knows “more than one woman who had been led to believe her life in America would be one of comfort and prosperity. She knew too, that more often than not, the first meeting was a disappointment rather than a hope fulfilled. He sent...a rosy view of the future based more on hope than actual fact. The first months for many Japanese