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Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Article Review The narrator in “The Brown House” employs a unique narrative technique; the double telling aspect and the author’s choice of words are subdued, this intrigues the reader’s sense to evoke meaning through the thematic concerns addressed covertly. The subdued narrative voice in the passage is passive yet illuminates a lot about the narrators American-Japanese culture, the perspective of the woman in that society and the patriarchal culture. Mrs. Hattori is in the background, but the author foregrounds her voice through subversion. The woman in that community was just to be seen and not to be heard; Yamamoto defies this. There is complete irony in the way she narrates the events in Mr. Hattori’s house, although the ultimate outcome is tense and disastrous, the readers do not clearly see how it develop; Mr. Hattori was viewed as a provider to his family he often went to the gambling house where he develops a gambling culture. Mrs. Hattori in the excerpt was reluctant to the culture her husband had developed. As a female writer she writes in the background just as what her society asserts that women should do but voices out the critical issue in a euphemistic tone. The financial loss that befalls Mr. Hattori is due to his decisive and stubborn character, he does not heed his wife’s advice and, finally, she resorts to adjust her attitude towards the money; they then buy a new car, new rug and first washing machine (Yamamoto 45). The “double-voiced discourse” certainly confirms how tragic poverty befalls their house, before Mrs. Hattori was against her husband’s gambling but since women
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