Snow Falling on Cedars | Themes

Guterson reminds us we cannot judge others by their facial expression or by their body language. We can only judge others only by seeing deeply into their hearts, seeing the coldness or warmth of their heart. For eighteen-year-old Ishmael, his childhood sweetheart, Hatsue, has her moods, "times when she went cold and silent and he felt her distance from him so completely that it seemed impossible to reach her. Even when he held her it seemed to him there was a place in her heart he couldn't get to." She denies that her reticence means she is withholding her love. She had been carefully...

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