W10 Part A Reading: Mori

Reading notes are from various short stories by Toshio Mori, pgs. 583-592

The Woman Who Makes Swell Doughnuts

• The woman he visits already sounds like a happy grandmas house, and I didn’t need the second paragraph to know that. 
• She’s lived a very long, busy life. 
• Fresh doughnuts in a comfy house sound great, fresh doughnuts in general are a real treat.
• Everyone calls her “Mama”, she’s the neighborhood grandma for all the kids, probably a good safe influence for them, and also a bit of cultural influence. 
• It’s peaceful that they can sit and enjoy the sounds of the city. 
• She lives on through the many memories they shared, it’s warming to share the experiences.

The Eggs of the World

• Matoi is an interesting sounding character, he sounds snake like. 
• Is Hasegawa is a shop owner? That’s what I implied based on carrying many types of imported sake. 
• Inside an egg, sounds like he’s living in a safety bubble? That’s what I can get out of this metaphor. 
• Broken from within, definitely sounds like it’s something like you need life experiences, or your too naive or something. 
• And now he got the sake he was planning, mostly probably to shut him up, but he obviously did that on purpose. 
• A sober and drunk at the same time man, that puts together the thoughts of his behavior well. 

He Who Has the Laughing Face

• Oh, sounds like a person who puts on the happy mask for the world, because the sad one isn’t acceptable...
• The author notes a lot of people are like this, but we don’t take notice, I feel that’s very true. 
• Sitting out in the park many days, maybe he was recently unemployed? Maybe he just takes his lunches there. We don’t know yet.
• Now we know what he does, it’s part time work, hence the free time. It’s nice that the author was concerned about him though. 
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