As the first visual protagonist in the book, Watanabe connects Muyue, Yongze, Naoko, Lvzi, Commando, Chumei and Reiko Kobayakawa through Watanabe. All the characteristics of these protagonists are the characteristics that the author wants to express, which is also the characteristics that the author wants to tell the world. Then, in fact, we can also understand that Watanabe is the author himself. He has distinct characteristics and is scattered on the protagonist of the story through some mapping.

? Background introduction Toru Watanabe is a near-perfect image of sincerity, kindness and courage to take responsibility. He has his own ideas in everything, does not go with the flow, and has his own opinions in everything. He likes reading, watching movies, listening to records, and tasting vodka and whisky. In today's words, he is simply a literary teenager with a slightly melancholy temperament.

But I am introverted, withdrawn (sometimes even a little withdrawn), and occasionally I have no opinion, lack of self-discipline and promiscuity (I went to the night show with Yongze to find a young lady and didn't refuse Naoko and Ayako's ML request)

Generally speaking, he is sometimes detached from the edge of society, and the reasons for this situation are mostly the death of Muyue, the development of Naoko's illness and their relationship.

The writing background of this book is about the sixties of the last world. Japan's postwar economy longed for rapid development, but Watanabe was not eager for material life in the postwar background of Japan at that time. On the contrary, Watanabe is a person who enjoys spiritual life and creates his own material with his own hands (university funds are basically his own work-study program).

What qualities are there in Watanabe that are worth learning? We're here to analyze.

1, romance in the book, Murakami made a detailed and delicate description of this part. For example, Yoko asked Junichi Watanabe to describe his love for him, and Junichi Watanabe was not talking about the cliché lines in idol dramas, but the ordinary life of basking in the sun and rolling with bears on the green grass. In Yuan Ye in spring, you are walking alone, and a lovely bear, fluffy hair and bulging eyes come across. It says to you: hello, miss, would you like to roll with me? Then, you hold the bear and roll down the hillside covered with clover for a whole day. You think it's great? I believe that no matter which reader sees this scene, there will always be that itchy special emotion in his heart. It is hard to imagine that Haruki Murakami, a man in his late forties, can describe the feelings of a 20-year-old boy and a little girl as delicate as himself.

In the 1960s, Watanabe felt that he was a high flyers and had ambitions for the provincial capital. He likes to observe and experience everything in society and the world silently. He is brilliant and loves reading, but he has no pride or contempt for others. He always goes back to comfort Naoko's words and boring conversations. Even if he can't answer the questions, he will always accompany Naoko silently and accompany her to walk along the tracks all afternoon. Yoko is an open girl to Yoko. Even if a woman asks him about going to a nightclub with Yongze to find a young lady, or jokes about Mr. Watanabe sleeping with a married woman, or asks to discuss pornographic movies together, even if Watanabe is insensitive to these topics and even scoffs, he never complains or even gets angry from beginning to end, but he still accompanies Yoko like a comedian, and the listeners are watching his unreasonable troubles. He is a good listener to Ling Zijie, Chu and even Yongze, a somewhat annoying dude (of course, his talent and personal taste are still very noble). When a friend gets lost, he needs to drink, watch movies and listen to records. He still accompanies his friends, but he often feels lonely without company. This generosity and thoughtfulness is the most welcome.

3, perceptual Watanabe opposed Yongze's behavior of often looking for strangers ML, in his eyes. It is shameful to promiscuous with strangers. But several times he went out with Yongze, went out to find a young lady and even exchanged girls to sleep with him. Although he was very opposed to this kind of behavior in his heart, he did it himself, showing his loneliness and loneliness that he desperately needed warm company.

In the shop where he works, when he sees some practices that he doesn't like in the society outside the store, he will express his views and occasionally vomit. For those practices, he didn't like them very much, and even wrote disgust and contempt. Those students who were punished for calling for a school strike went to school as if nothing had happened after the summer vacation, but Watanabe hated their behavior. In order to express his dissatisfaction with this "obscene behavior", he didn't answer in class and the teacher called him by name. Although there was only one person, he insisted on silent protest, even though the resistance had no substantive effect. But in his heart, there is a sentimental hero.

To sum up, although Watanabe seems to have many friends, he is essentially a lonely person. There are some strange people around him, such as Ye Yongze, wonderful commando roommate, divorced lesbian Reiko Kobayakawa with mental illness, Naoko who committed suicide, Muyue who also committed suicide, and so on. These people basically left him in the end, because they didn't walk into his heart at all, as if they had been passers-by in their lives. (The author also wrote at the end of the book that some of Murakami's friends have left or died, and Watanabe seems to be Murakami himself but not himself. He has no expectations for all life, even playing with girls, watching pornographic movies, smoking and drinking (he loves drinking to the point of alcoholism, and there are many words to describe him drinking, such as vodka, brandy, whiskey and all kinds of red wine). It seems that there is really nothing that can make him care (without any preparation, a person travels with goals and no goals), and he seems to be addicted to life, but he especially cares about Naoko and his good brother Muyue. Watanabe seems to be a complex of contradictions. My attitude towards life is very indifferent, completely different from my roommate and Ling Zijie. My roommate has been doing broadcast gymnastics and drawing maps for many years, but his hobby, in his own words, is "nothing to like, nothing to dislike, whatever". Being roommates with all kinds of wonderful flowers, making friends and taking this professional class that you don't like makes people feel very indifferent.

Perhaps many times, his behavior is just to cover up his loneliness. Pretend to be integrated into this society and into the social circle of these friends, even if it is to give up on yourself. He doesn't know what he wants or where he is. Just like the end of the novel, he asked himself over and over again with a microphone, "I don't know where this is. I'm completely at a loss." Where the hell is this? "

Sources of some references:

1, Fang Lu: Searching for the Spirit in the Forest —— Analysis of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Forest

2. Shang Yiou: ○ Chronology of Haruki Murakami (1949-2007), Japan Research Forum,No. 1 2008, pp. 63-72.

3. Wang Hongmei: Interpretation of Characters in Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Forest, Journal of North China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower (Social Science Edition), Vol.26, No.3, pp.69 and 70.

4. Qin Rui and Yang Qingzhi: Interpretation of three female images in Norwegian Wood.

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