Naruse's Summer Clouds / Iwashigumo

[Michael E. Kerpan]

I think our heroine _feels_ a sense of futility (or at least extreme 
frustration) -- as she is "trapped" on the land (for the benefit of her child 
-- and due to the need to care for her mother in law)  -- while her young 
in-laws get to escape to the city....

;~}

MEK

On Monday 15 January 2007 12:05, Alexander Jacoby wrote:
> Thanks Michael. So, you are saying that it's actually not futile - the land
> is hers, and she will keep the profits from the rice she's ploughing at the
> end.
>
> ALEX