Tanizaki Junichiro’s Naomi was firstly serialized from 1924 to 1925. The story is about a middle class worker, Kawai Joji, rescues a café waitress, Naomi, and tries to grow her to be a …show more content…
The essential of this change is that the ultimate desiredness of Kawai is to possess a real western wife. If Naomi can become perfectly western look woman, then Kawai will pay everything in order to keep her. As a result, the change of the power balance between Naomi and Kawai is manipulated by the change of Naomi’s both inner and outer appearances. In other words, Naomi possesses the power to modify the balance. This transformation of the power is firstly demonstrated in the second conflict between them.
Naomi suddenly changed her attitude again, as if she were saying to herself, “I botched that one, didn’t I?” She rose quickly to her feet and said, “I’m going, then,” in a perfectly normal tone of