![]() ![]() ![]() At the novel’s end, she is expecting her first child. The engagement goes through, the couple is eventually married, and Noriko moves out of her father’s spacious home and into a small modern apartment with her husband Taro. At the same time, he has a reverent attitude toward the corporation where he works. He is a good conversationalist, who enjoys joking. It is only after Ono tells the assembled group that he regrets some of his work during the war that Noriko begins to show her personality during the all-important meeting. A friendly young man who works in an office, Taro Saito becomes Noriko’s husband at the end of a stressful courtship for the Ono family. ![]() Later, as marriage negotiations progress with a new match, Taro Saito, Noriko becomes stiff and nervous during the formal meeting of the two families. Noriko is playful and good with children, getting along especially well with her nephew, Ichiro. She often complains to Ono about his laziness, meddling, and lack of activity. At the novel’s start, Noriko is living alone with her father in their home, but working in an office. After the Miyake family withdrew from marriage negotiations without providing a believable explanation, Noriko suspects that perhaps something her father said or did caused the rupture. The year before the action of the novel, the Ono family was in talks to marry Noriko to Jiro Miyake. The younger, prettier, and more outspoken of Ono’s two daughters, Noriko is unmarried for much of the novel and, at nearly twenty-six years old, is becoming worried that she will not find a husband. ![]()
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