Swaddling Clothes (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Yukio Mishima
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Plot: Horror
- Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century
- Setting: Tokyo, Japan, near the Imperial Palace
- Principal Characters: Toshiko, Her husband, A nurse
- Genres: Short fiction, Horror literature
- Subjects: Children, Husbands, Wives, Acting or actors, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Poverty or poor people, Childbirth, Fate or fatalism, Japan or Japanese people
- Locales: Tokyo, Japan
The Story
After a shocking incident in their home two days earlier, Toshiko and her actor husband meet friends in a Tokyo nightclub. The young wife and mother is dumbfounded to hear her husband recounting the incident—which has disturbed her greatly—as merely an amusing story for their companions’ entertainment. Troubled and vulnerable, Toshiko feels acutely aware of her husband's insensitivity, neglect, and lack of consideration for her. Her mind swells with loneliness and her fears of the future provoked by her horror at the scene she has so recently encountered in her...
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