Upon finishing the book, I am kind of left unfulfilled. I mean I hardly understood why he slept with a woman 19 years his senior but I have my theories... I wanted to see the development of his relationship with Midori, I feel as a reader I am somewhat owed this. I noticed that the Toru becomes very introspective after Naoko's death, he starts to understand who he is. I was brought back to Nagasawa saying that Toru was just like him, taking and using other people's feeling and care for him without a care for them. He realized that he did that with his first girlfriend and then he did it with the young fisherman that helped him. I thought that was very interesting.
I've also noticed that he tends to make a best friend in someone he somewhat admires or envies, then he takes interests in their girlfriends, which I think anybody would see as a little strange. These girlfriends sense his feelings for them and therefore try to set him up with women they know that are similar to them in some way but he refuses to actually try with the women they try to set him up with.
I must admit that I don't understand Midori, why is she putting up with all this from a man who is sending her mixed signals, like it really gets to a point where I have to just believe that she wants heartache, perhaps she misses the stress and heartache of caring for her father so she is seeking out stress but I would NEVER.
Back to my theory, I felt like Toru sort of dumped his sorrow and mourning into Reiko along with his sperm. So he needed to sleep with her to depart from his sorrow. I wish we could have gone to present time, to him on the plane, and perhaps have seen him in Germany to meet Midori. Or maybe even Nagasawa. But I suppose this is the issue with novels.
Kashai
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