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4.1.1.3 Dilettante
Dilettante can be defined as a person who studies something without serious interest or understanding at it, for example in art. Shimamura is a person
who likes art especially in dancing and theatre. He likes Kabuki and is also very interested in western ballet, but he had not seen the ballet yet. He said that liking
ballet is like loving a person who he had not ever met before. His interest in ballets that he called a research actually is his uncontrolled fantasy through his
own dancing imagination with Western books and pictures. Nothing could be more comfortable than writing about the ballet
from books. A ballet he had never seen was an art in another world. It was unrivalled armchair reverie, a lyric from some paradise. He
called his work research, but it was actually free, uncontrolled phantasy. He preffered not to savor the ballet in the flesh; rather he
savoured the phantasms of his own dancing imagination, called up by Western books and pictures. It was being in love with someone
he had never seen 25.
We also can see that Shimamura is also a person who has no real occupation from the statement of the writer 25, that he can enjoys his own world
in art, especially in the dancing world as his work. He found that his work pampering and comforting him 131.
4.1.1.4 Selfish
Shimamura is a selfish person who could not feel about other’s feeling. All his thinkings are only his for the sake of his own feeling and thoughts. His
manhood and proudness makes him to be a selfish person as easily deceived someone.
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Shimamura had come to a pint where he knew he was only parading his masculine shameless, and yet it seemed likely enough
that the woman was familiar with the failing and need not be shocked by it. 21
That is why he treated Komako badly and often deceived Komako. This is seen from his mannerism on page 25; ”..he was treating the woman exactly as he
treated the occidental dance.”. Although Komako tries so hard and does everything in order to show her
love and her feeling to Shimamura, for him it is only a wasted effort. It seems that he has a hard heart that cannot feel her love although he has feeling to Yoko,
Komako’s maid whom he saw in the train on his way to the snow country. Were he to give himself quite up to that consciousness of wasted
effort, Shimamura felt, he would be drawn into a remote emotionalism that would make his own life a waste . 43
All Komako’s effort seems a waste effort for him. All the things that Komako has done do not give a place for Komako in his heart and could not make Shimamura
love Komako as Komako loves him so deeply. From his thought, we can know that all Komako came to him, but it seemed that nothing went out from him to her
155. Shimamura is only receiving from Komako and not giving back to her. We can know that Shimamura is also a selfish person is from his thought
about Komako, “Ah, this woman is in love with me-but he was annoyed with himself for the thought” 71-72. It proves that Shimamura is annoyed by the fact
that Komako is in love with him. He is afraid to fall in love with Komako and he tries to deny his feeling to Komako because he is afraid of commitment. He is
afraid to love but he has passion for Komako. It shows his selfishness. Although Shimamura likes Komako a lot, he does not care about her.
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Another prove shows that Shimamura is a selfish person, is when Komako does not like to talk about Yukio, Shimamura does not care about that. Even he
asks Komako to Yukio’s grave. At the cemetery, they see Yoko. Shimamura asks Komako if Yoko lives
alone. Komako answers that Shimamura say things he has no business saying. Shimamura does not understand why Komako feels irritated whenever he asks
about Yoko. It shows Shimamura’s selfishness and does not care about Komako’s feeling. Even when he is with Komako, he shows his interest in Yoko.
4.1.1.5 Inconsistent
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