Reality In Kikio Mishima's Spring Snow

Kiyo, the main character in “Spring Snow”, often found himself lost in his own thoughts. At one point he told two princes who were staying at his humble abode about the lovely and elegant, Satoko, his one and only true love. He told the princes from Siam, Prince Kridsada and Prince Pattandid, that he would introduce them to her as soon as he could. However, at this point in the story he had just sent a wildly insulting letter to her a couple days before and was trying to take it all back as quickly as he could. Kiyo made mistakes like this throughout the entire book and with these mistakes came panic attacks of how to resolve them. In this particular situation Kiyo left the princes abruptly and ran through the corridor leading to the main house ; he soon grew tired and took a rest on the windowsill. It was there he gathered his breath, thoughts, and emotions. “Unlike dreams, reality was not so easy to manipulate.” (Yukio Mishima, page 51) Kiyo realized he must conceive a plan to resolve his foolish action of sending that letter to …show more content…
Not that my life isn 't amazing, don’t get me wrong. Its just when I’m dreaming everything seems so perfect, but not in the sense that nothing is wrong. In the sense where if my dreams did become my reality then I would be a lot happier than I am. I’m trapped in my dreams wishing for them to be my reality, but as soon as my eyes flutter open I’m stuck. Stuck in reality. In my dreams I can force myself to take risks, where in life I can’t. I can manipulate my dreams so I take risks, whereas in reality I run away from the first sign of risk. Taking risks in life has the possibility of harmful consequences. Why would I force myself to do something that could hurt me? I have no idea, but in my dreams I am not afraid to take those risks. I wish I could jump into the unknown abysses of risks and not be panicking within my thoughts, but my mind isn 't in a dream it only sees