According to Yoshida Seiichi's remark, Kokoro is a "well-written" novel. But when it is read without any preconception, it is full of contradiction. The most inexplicable of those is that of the hero's wife (former "Ojosan"). She seems unaware of the serious conflict between the two men (including her husband), trying to win her love. She seems to have no idea about how the winner's mind has changed since. It is unnatural that she should be left so entirely untouched. The author closed his eyes to the realities between man and woman, which he must have recognized. In the same way, the hero "I" and his parents are never real at all. I'vs attempted to pursue what Soseki wanted to describe or assert at the cost of realism.
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