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The narrator’s mother is a kind-hearted, middle-aged rural woman. A devoted wife and mother, she takes loving care of her family, tending to her ill husband (the narrator’s father) and performing traditional domestic duties within the house. Despite her husband’s worsening condition, she proves resilient and optimistic, keeping the family afloat despite mounting fears about their father’s impending death. As such, the narrator’s mother embodies traditional Japanese values of familial devotion, practicality, and domesticity, serving as a stark contrast to the narrator’s increasingly metropolitan, individualistic worldview.
The Narrator’s Mother Quotes in Kokoro
The Kokoro quotes below are all either spoken by The Narrator’s Mother or refer to The Narrator’s Mother. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2: My Parents and I Quotes
“The trouble with education,” said my father, “is that it makes a man argumentative.”
He said no more then. But in that simple remark, I saw clearly the character of his resentment towards me, which I had sense before. Not realizing that I myself was being rather difficult, I felt strongly the injustice of my father’s approach.
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The Narrator’s Mother Quotes in Kokoro
The Kokoro quotes below are all either spoken by The Narrator’s Mother or refer to The Narrator’s Mother. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 2: My Parents and I Quotes
“The trouble with education,” said my father, “is that it makes a man argumentative.”
He said no more then. But in that simple remark, I saw clearly the character of his resentment towards me, which I had sense before. Not realizing that I myself was being rather difficult, I felt strongly the injustice of my father’s approach.
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