The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen Analysis

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“The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen” and “A Family Supper” are the good examples of the troubled relationship which include an universal approach that almost everbody can witness or experience. Both of the stories’ characters have common points like different perspectives and characters that produce lack of communication so, it causes an unpleasantness and remoteness between the people of the stories. If we begin with “The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen”, we see a couple at the foreground. The Japanese gentlemen are really invisible in the story in terms of two reasons. Firtsly, they do not speak too much, less than usual between themselves and the other one is that they don’t do any actions but they just sit and talk a little so, the girl, who is a character of the story, doesn’t realise them even exactly. “They spoke to each other rarely in their incomprehensible tongue, but always a courteous smile and often with a small bow.” So, we realize that they haven’t got a close relationship but a formal one. The couple are in the center of the story. The girl is very dominant while the boy is passive and weak. It is clear that he still can’t make his own choices completely and he is bounded to his mother becuase when the girl suggests that they can marry for the following week and he starts with his sentence by saying “Of Course, but Mother…” He speaks as if he can’t make his decision of his own properly. Moreover, the narrator thinks that he is weak as well. “He