Kobe And Yoshiko Don T Like Each Other

The parents of Kobe and Yoshiko don’t like each other. Kobe’s father is having an extramarital affair because he does not want to divorce his wife. If he divorces her his respect in society will be affected. In the same way, Yoshiko's father is having an extramarital affair. He too does not divorce his due to respectability. “Both of them… were with parents who didn’t get along…and fathers who kept a mistress and stayed away from home as much as they could. Fear of Public opinion kept their parents from divorcing” (Murakami 90). This shows how hypocrite they were. They did not want to be disrespected in society so they did not get divorced but they were doing something immoral by having extramarital affairs. The middle class is a spineless animal. The middle class are not able to live up to their moral standards.
Middle-class girls want to keep their virginity until marriage. This is done in order to be respectable but they still indulge in sexual pleasures. Yoshiko did not let Kobe make love with her. She wanted to keep her virginity until marriage but she was making out with him. Either she went to his house when his parents were out or he went to her house when her parents were out and except intercourse they did other things. “During their make out… their clothes had to stay on, and
This is the story of a person and what happened to him. This is also the story of every human being (Murakami 84,109). I do not know what he means by this that it is a story of all human beings but from the Marxist perspective, it really is the story of us all. The economic factor is the basic factor which gives us all identity and this is the base by which we interact and deal with others. As the characters of the story made choices. So are we. We also make choices and these choices are driven by the economic factor (concern). Marx is proved