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CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of three main parts namely, Object of the Study, Approach of the Study and Method of the Study. Object of the Study concerns with
the object or data of the study in the literary work that is analyzed. Approach of the study contains the approach that is used in analyzing the work. Method of the Study
describes the way or procedure taken in analyzing the work.
3.1 Object of the Study
The title of the novel that will be analyzed in this study is Snow Country 1948 by Yasunari Kawabata. The English translation by Edward G. Seidensticker of
the novel was published in 1957.This novel is the most popular work of Kawabata and become one of his three novels cited by the Nobel Committee in awarding him
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968
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Snow Country is the story of Shimamura, a wealthy, sophisticated and a married man from Tokyo, and a geisha named Komako in a small, nameless village
located in the snow country of Japan, which is the snowiest region on Earth. Komako and Shimamura come together at an isolated mountain hotspring. Komako is a girl
who became a geisha to help pay the medical bills of a young man who is dying. He may or may not be her fiancé. Shimamura is an older, married man with a family. He
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is described as a dilettante, a wealthy man who lives a life of idleness. He goes to the hotspring after spending eight days in the mountains and asks for a geisha. All of the
geishas, however, are busy with a celebration in the village so Shimamura ends up with Komako, a young girl who has not yet become a full-fledged geisha. Their
relationship is rocky; Komako is too young, too clean but they become lovers in spite of Shimamura’s hesitancy. Komako, unlike Shimamura, throws herself into the
relationship with her whole heart. An added complication to their relationship is Yoko, a young girl Shimamura notices on the train when he make his first visit to the
resort and then becomes fascinated with her. At the end of the novel, Komako has told Shimamura to leave and not return,
saying she will live a normal life if he stays away. Shimamura, who seems to care more for Komako than he wants to or is comfortable with, is on the verge of leaving
when a fire tragedy occurs in the village. The tragedy seems as a final ending for their relationship.
3.2 Approach of the Study
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