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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Taeko, a selfish dilettante who is also capable of deep love and goes through an almost completely undeserved TraumaCongaLine late in the novel.
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* AlasPoorScrappy: Taeko doesn't die, but her TraumaCongaLine in the second half of the book definitely invokes this ([[BaseBreakingCharacter|for readers who don't like her]]).
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* AlasPoorScrappy: Taeko doesn't die, but her TraumaCongaLine in the second half of the book definitely invokes this ([[BaseBreakingCharacter|for ([[BaseBreakingCharacter for readers who don't like her]]).
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The book was shut down by the government in 1943 (serialization stopped, publication forbidden) for, literally, [[InvokedTrope|not being political]] (it's a domestic tale focusing, in the censors' words, on "the very thing we are most supposed to be on our guard against during this period of wartime emergency: the soft, effeminate, and grossly individualistic lives of women"). It's a book that was censored for what wasn't in it.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The book was shut down by the government in 1943 (serialization stopped, publication forbidden) for, literally, [[InvokedTrope|not [[InvokedTrope not being political]] (it's a domestic tale focusing, in the censors' words, on "the very thing we are most supposed to be on our guard against during this period of wartime emergency: the soft, effeminate, and grossly individualistic lives of women"). It's a book that was censored for what wasn't in it.
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* AlasPoorScrappy: Taeko doesn't die, but her TraumaCongaLine in the second half of the book definitely invokes this.
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* AlasPoorScrappy: Taeko doesn't die, but her TraumaCongaLine in the second half of the book definitely invokes this.this ([[BaseBreakingCharacter|for readers who don't like her]]).
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* ValuesDissonance: Averted with Taeko. She's shallow, selfish, and pretentious even by modern Western standards.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Actively ignoring the fact that UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is happening is presented as a heroic act of passive resistance.
** The movie maybe, the book was shut down by the government in 1943 (serialization stopped, publication forbidden) because it completely ignored the "party line" about strengthening the nation (it's a domestic tale, quite literally). It's book that was censored for what wasn't in it.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Actively ignoring the fact that UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is happening is presented as a heroic act of passive resistance.
** The movie maybe, the book was shut down by the government in 1943 (serialization stopped, publication forbidden) because it completely ignored the "party line" about strengthening the nation (it's a domestic tale, quite literally). It's book that was censored for what wasn't in it.
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* ValuesDissonance: Averted The Makiokas are generally likeable people who try to do the right thing, but they live in a society in which class barriers are seen as both impermeable and morally praiseworthy, forced abortion isn't seen as a big deal, and the advances of ThoseWackyNazis leave people "overcome with Taeko. She's shallow, selfish, pleasure at the military successes of a friendly nation".
*ValuesResonance: Taeko, whose sisters see her as a self-absorbed dilettante, comes across as shallow and pretentious evenby modern Western standards.
to many readers today.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical:Actively ignoring the fact that UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is happening is presented as a heroic act of passive resistance.
**The movie maybe, the book was shut down by the government in 1943 (serialization stopped, publication forbidden) because it completely ignored the "party line" about strengthening the nation for, literally, [[InvokedTrope|not being political]] (it's a domestic tale, quite literally). tale focusing, in the censors' words, on "the very thing we are most supposed to be on our guard against during this period of wartime emergency: the soft, effeminate, and grossly individualistic lives of women"). It's a book that was censored for what wasn't in it.
*ValuesResonance: Taeko, whose sisters see her as a self-absorbed dilettante, comes across as shallow and pretentious even
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical:
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* HoYay / FoeYay: Okubata and Itakura.
* NightmareFuel / AdultFear: Sachiko starts out very optimistic, resourceful, level-headed, and maternal. The description of her five-hundred-page slide into crippling depression is...'''''extremely realistic'''''.
* ToyShip: Etsuko and Peter Stolz.
* NightmareFuel / AdultFear: Sachiko starts out very optimistic, resourceful, level-headed, and maternal. The description of her five-hundred-page slide into crippling depression is...'''''extremely realistic'''''.
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* HoYay / DesignatedHero: Sachiko isn't always the most likeable or morally upstanding of the sisters, but SympatheticPOV ensures that she's usually treated the most generously by the narrative.
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*NightmareFuel / AdultFear: NightmareFuel: Sachiko starts out very optimistic, resourceful, level-headed, and maternal. The description of her five-hundred-page slide into crippling depression is...'''''extremely realistic'''''.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Actively ignoring the fact that WorldWarTwo is happening is presented as a heroic act of passive resistance.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Actively ignoring the fact that WorldWarTwo UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is happening is presented as a heroic act of passive resistance.
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* HoYay / LesYay: [[FoeYay Okubata and Itakura]] ; [[spoiler:[[IncestYayShipping Sachiko and Yukiko]]]].
* [[IncestYayShipping Incest Yay]]: [[spoiler:Sachiko is ''heavily'' implied to be secretly in love with Yukiko]], which is used as a platform for [[AuthorAvatar her]] to {{Wangst}} about [[AuthorFilibuster the pluses and minuses of]] ArrangedMarriage.
* NightmareFuel: Sachiko starts out very optimistic, resourceful, level-headed, and maternal. The description of her five-hundred-page slide into crippling depression is...'''''extremely realistic'''''.
* [[IncestYayShipping Incest Yay]]: [[spoiler:Sachiko is ''heavily'' implied to be secretly in love with Yukiko]], which is used as a platform for [[AuthorAvatar her]] to {{Wangst}} about [[AuthorFilibuster the pluses and minuses of]] ArrangedMarriage.
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* HoYay / LesYay: [[FoeYay FoeYay: Okubata and Itakura]] ; [[spoiler:[[IncestYayShipping Sachiko and Yukiko]]]].
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*[[IncestYayShipping Incest Yay]]: [[spoiler:Sachiko is ''heavily'' implied to be secretly in love with Yukiko]], which is used as a platform for [[AuthorAvatar her]] to {{Wangst}} about [[AuthorFilibuster the pluses and minuses of]] ArrangedMarriage.
* NightmareFuel:NightmareFuel / AdultFear: Sachiko starts out very optimistic, resourceful, level-headed, and maternal. The description of her five-hundred-page slide into crippling depression is...'''''extremely realistic'''''.
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* ValuesDissonance: Averted with Taeko. She's a shallow, selfish, slutty, pretentious bitch even by modern Western standards.
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* ValuesDissonance: Averted with Taeko. She's a shallow, selfish, slutty, and pretentious bitch even by modern Western standards.
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* CompleteMonster: Sawasaki.
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* HoYay / LesYay: [[FoeYay Okubata and Itakura]] ; [[spoiler:[[IncestYayShipping Sachiko and Yukiko]]]].
* [[IncestYayShipping Incest Yay]]: [[spoiler:Sachiko is ''heavily'' implied to be secretly in love with Yukiko]], which is used as a platform for [[AuthorAvatar her]] to {{Wangst}} about [[AuthorFilibuster the pluses and minuses of]] ArrangedMarriage.
* [[IncestYayShipping Incest Yay]]: [[spoiler:Sachiko is ''heavily'' implied to be secretly in love with Yukiko]], which is used as a platform for [[AuthorAvatar her]] to {{Wangst}} about [[AuthorFilibuster the pluses and minuses of]] ArrangedMarriage.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Sachiko starts out very optimistic, resourceful, level-headed, and maternal. The description of her five-hundred-page slide into crippling depression is...'''''extremely realistic'''''.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: NightmareFuel: Sachiko starts out very optimistic, resourceful, level-headed, and maternal. The description of her five-hundred-page slide into crippling depression is...'''''extremely realistic'''''.
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* CompleteMonster: Sawasaki. In fact, most of the men to whom Yukiko is introduced.
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* CompleteMonster: Sawasaki. In fact, most of the men to whom Yukiko is introduced.
