“The mother of a queen”
This story’s main character was so selfish: the man who don’t pay the money for his mother’s grave in spite of coming the warming “if you don’t pay money, your mother’s bone will dumped on the public boneheap”, and he wantd to borrow money from his acquaintance for lend money for vanity to his friends who faced the mother’s sick. For the attitude of the man like as I introduced, the man was called as a queen.
It’s impressive the man said “it’s my business” many times when he was told the acquaintance “please pay the money for your mother”. I recalled some works of Dazai’s character or himself.
“One reader writes”
This story was so short, only have two pages but interesting.
This took the form of letter one woman should do who’s husband was took “sifilus” to the doctor.
The repletion in the last part lingered in my mind like a sort of lyrics as follows: I want to do whatever is right. It’s such a long time though. It’s a ling time. And it’s been a long time. My Christ, it’s been a long time. He had to go wherever they sent him, I know, but I don’t know what he had to get if for. Oh, I wish to Christ he wouldn’t have got it. I don’t care what he did to get it. But I wish to Christ he hadn’t ever got it…I wish to Christ he hadn’t got any kind of malady. I don’t know why he had to get a malady.”
Bibliography
Ernest Hemingway, (1972), “The Nick Adams stories”, New York: Scribner
(谷口睦男他訳、『ヘミングウェイ全集1』、三笠書房、1973年)
