Japanese Hamlet (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Toshio Mori
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Plot: Parody
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: Northern California
- Principal Characters: Tom Fukunaga, The narrator
- Genres: Short fiction, Parody
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Dreams, 1930’s, California, West, U.S., Obsession, Ambition, Japanese Americans, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays
- Locales: California
The Story
Tom Fukunaga is a Nisei, a person born in the United States of parents who emigrated from Japan. He is more in tune with the mainstream culture in the United States than with traditional Japanese culture. Fukunaga is thirty-one years old but still a schoolboy. Besides free room and board, Fukunaga receives five dollars a week from a Piedmont home where he stays, just as he had done when he was a freshman at Piedmont High School. Ostensibly, the main reason behind Fukunaga's decision to stay in school is his affection for William Shakespeare's plays and his aspiration...
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