Snow Country

In the novel Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata the theme of “wasted effort” is displayed throughout the novel many times, to label a person’s actions such as Komako. Shimamura, the main character, implies the theme various times when people such as Komako will complete tasks that have no meaning behind them and he would consider them as being a waste of time and effort. Even though Shimamura believes that some of Komako’s tasks have no purpose behind them, ironically their relationship grows stronger

in the story. In the novel ‘Snow Country’ by Yasunari Kawabata the setting plays a pivotal role in highlighting prominent themes such as, Loneliness, Wasted Love and Wasted Beauty. Snow country is the literal translation of the Japanese title ‘Yukiguni’. The name comes from where the story takes place or rather where the story is ‘set’; a village (rural area) on an island in Japan that receives a huge amount of snow during the season of ‘winter’. The title ‘Snow Country’ it-self induces a slight hint

Importance of Seasons in Kawabata's Snow Country   In his novel Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata depicts a relationship between two people in the mountainous region of Japan. Shimamura, a businessman from Tokyo, visits a village in the snow country and develops a relationship with Komako, a geisha in that village. Their relationship is the central focus of the novel, as it changes each time Shimamura leaves for Tokyo and returns. Kawabata uses the changing of the seasons to reflect these

The story snow country by “Yasunari Kawabata, is written in third person point of view by the protagonist named Shimamura. Snow country is a tale of love affairs, the story is about Shimamura, a westernized upper- class man of Tokyo would leave his wife and kids in Tokyo. To makes a series of visit to a hot springs town resort in snow country japan. While on the train, Shimamura was taken by a girl beauty; named Yoko.she was with a sick person named yukio. He develops a relationship with a girl

Prior to studying ‘Snow Country’, the Buddhist concept of impermanence was rather closely associated to my family’s tradition which highlighted that everything is constantly changing and nothing is permanent. However, I wasn’t fully aware of the cultural philosophies derived from Zen Buddhism associated with Japanese appreciation of nature as illustrated in the ‘Snow Country’. That the concept of impermanence was specificity portrayed through the idea of ‘mono no aware’ in essence to appreciate minute

Snow Country In the novel Snow Country by Kawabata, the author uses the snow country environment in the book to bring out the wastefulness experienced by Shimamura in various ways. This is best seen in instances when Shimamura is able to observe and reflect on activities going on around him while he is engaged in his surroundings and environment. Komako, an essential part of Shimamura’s snow country experience, helps him experience multiple instances when he notices the wastefulness in her life

Snow Country is a novel written by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata. This romantic fictional novel is about a rich man named Shimamura, who travels to a remote mountain area for a retreat and ends up meeting a woman named Komako who later becomes a geisha and Yoko who does not really appear as much but has a huge influence on Shimamura. Komako begins to fall in love with Shimamura, and an affair starts to blossom between Shimamura and , but this ends in a disaster due to Shimamura's apathetic

Snow Country “A place or Emotional and Psychological state.” Snow country is a place in a Western Japanese country, which we can consider as the setting of this novel. The expression does not mean where snow falls. Though an area, Y. Kawabata, the writer of the book writes in such a way that it portrays more about a love affair, human feelings, emotions, loneliness, and a state of a person in isolation. Likewise, the novel reveals how a human relationship can be complicated and arduous

In the novel of Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, this is a wary relationship between a wedded guest and a geisha at a hot spring. Kawabata creates a love story that results into nothing. He creates the theme of wasted effort between them. Through out the book, two situations of wasted effort is the hobbies they took up and their relationship. Between the two of them they had little to nothing in common but what brought them together was a little bit of luck and knowledge. The first situation

Snow Country “A place or Emotional and Psychological state” Snow country is a place in a Western Japanese country, which we can consider as the setting of this novel. The expression does not mean where snow falls. Though a place, Y. Kawabata, the writer of the novel writes in such a way that it portrays more about love affair, human feelings, emotions, loneliness, and a state of a human in isolation. Likewise, the novel reveals how human relationship can be complex and difficult at times