Clothing+shop

· To criticize the westernized, materialistic Japanese society at Yukio Mishima’s time · Mock the adults covering up their inner sentiments, giving false impressions, and being "fake" · The name “Rex” has reference to the reigning kings, suggesting that the shop is a high-class place for people looking for luxurious clothing (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rex). · The architecture of the clothing shop has a foreign appearance with a “mosque window”, “an open mezzanine much like a veranda overlooked a patio of imported Spanish tile”, “a small fountain”, and a “bronze Bacchus” (24). · Clothing is used as a way to cover up one’s true self or true beauty. · The shop sold mostly fashionable European goods · The heavy presence of Western features represents the loss of Japanese culture and identity of both the country and its people under outside influences. · Yoriko, the popular movie star, only shared her deep feelings and secret life experiences in the shop with Fusako · Yoriko comes to buy clothing to bribe the film jury, a sign of her false affection towards him, hence a cover-up. o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Fusako endured an internal conflict when she was talking to Yoriko. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· "Fusako felt only contempt... Then she knit sympathetic brows and said, becoming the proprietress again..." (127), forcing herself to present an alternate image <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Fusako acted different towards customer; she was unwilling to express her true feelings <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Fusako was nervous around the Bureaucrats. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Fusako attempted to decorate Ryuji’s job as laborious and beautiful. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Although a job in the clothing shop seemed much less glorious than the job of a sailor, Ryuji seemed eager to learn and work at the shop, giving up his free but albeit routine life on a ship, for a quiet, disciplined life in a clothing shop. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· "No, [I don't want to see a doctor], what with the holiday rush and everything" (119), Shibuya pretends to be healthy and fine, while his true state, or intention, is uncertain <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Seeing the shift in Ryuki’s status from the glorious sailor to useless shop keeper, the boys rejected to identify Ryuki as a hero and despised his eagerness to learn.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Clothing Shop **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Purpose **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Shop **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">People in the Shop **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Boy’s View on the Shop **

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