I added the general "major themes" and "critical reception" sections
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| === Editor (Love Interest) === | === Editor (Love Interest) === |
| The narrator's unnamed love interest in the story is an editor for a women's home magazine. After conversing, the two characters "begi[n] to like each other" and find that they have much in common. She is openly curious about the narrator's connection to the elephant's disappearance and is the one who encourages the narrator to tell his account of what he saw the night before the disappearance. After this event, they fall out of touch and this is the last instance that the narrator sees her. | The narrator's unnamed love interest in the story is an editor for a women's home magazine. After conversing, the two characters "begi[n] to like each other" and find that they have much in common. She is openly curious about the narrator's connection to the elephant's disappearance and is the one who encourages the narrator to tell his account of what he saw the night before the disappearance. After this event, they fall out of touch and this is the last instance that the narrator sees her. |
| == Major Themes == | |
| Finding identity in a postwar Japan | |
| Welch, Patricia. “Haruki Murakami’s Storytelling World.” ''World Literature Today'', vol. 79, no. 1, 2005, pp. 55–59. ''JSTOR'', <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2307/40158783</nowiki>. | |
| symbol of the elephant *KAFTA'S INFLUENCE*** | |
| LAI, AMY TY. “Memory, Hybridity, and Creative Alliance in Haruki Murakami’s Fiction.” ''Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal'', vol. 40, no. 1, 2007, pp. 163–79. ''JSTOR'', <nowiki>http://www.jstor.org/stable/44030164</nowiki>. | |
| This article specifically analyzes the presence of animals in Murakami’s stories and has a paragraph on ''The Elephant Vanishes'' as well (pg 167-168). | |
| Loughman, Celeste. “No Place I Was Meant to Be: Contemporary Japan in the Short Fiction of Haruki Murakami.” ''World Literature Today'', vol. 71, no. 1, 1997, pp. 87–94. ''JSTOR'', <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2307/40152571</nowiki>. | |
| This article also analyzes what the elephant symbolizes in ''The Elephant Vanishes'' and includes a couple of sentences on it (pg 92). | |
| Consumerism/Western ideas (?) | |
| == Critical Reception == | |
| == References == | == References == |
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