Mediocrity In A Wild Sheep Chase

Mediocrity
In the book A Wild Sheep Chase written by Haruki Murakami, various and interwoven themes are progressed. The salient one tries to give the message about the life’s mediocrity and mundaneness.
If the characters in the book are examined, including the narrator, it can be seen that there is only one characteristic attached to them, no more. For example, the only thing is known about the woman at the beginning of the book is that she has sex with lots of people and get in touch with people via sex. The only thing known about the narrator’s partner is that he is an alcoholic or about the narrator’s girlfriend is that she has gorgeous ears. Being unique with a characteristic is actually common on those unique people, in every human being.

A sheep is such an obedient animal that does not rebel anything, busy with eating given grass and is unaware of what will happen to it, like all human being busy with their uniqueness. Throughout the book sheep always exist, which is actually a motif of busy with their uniqueness human beings in their monotone life in total. Murakami implies this main idea by using several motifs and raising questions in readers’ mind throughout the book. Some of these questions are not answered judiciously. This is also kind of underhanded explains life’s

It still doesn’t give any rational answer why “ears” are chosen for a unique feature belonged to this woman. Readers get to know this woman by her “extraordinary” unblocked ears. She has such unusual ears that a waiter in a restaurant cannot pour the coffee properly or everyone in the restaurant start stare at this woman (45). But, this whole extraordinariness ends up with sex, a completely ordinary action for a human being. This “extraordinary unblocked ears” motif actually represents each person’s uniqueness. Since this extraordinariness is actually natural ordinariness in total as the Boss’s secretary says, there is nothing left about the extraordinariness.
“Sex” is another motif in the book, which symbolizes mundaneness. Narrator’s girlfriend describes sex like this: “A duty. Dry and tasteless, like chewing a newsprint”(47). By describing sex, she also describes life’s normality and monotonousness. In short, her extraordinary unblocked ears end up with sex, like individualism ends up with