She can be seen as the main character in this novel due to her overarching conflict that appears significantly throughout the story: she and her sister are estranged. One of the first characters introduced is a timid nineteen-year-old girl named Mari Asai. The author invites us as readers to contemplate how complex human nature truly is. Within the first few lines of After Dark, Murakami depicts the city of Tokyo as “a single gigantic creature-or more like a single collective entity created by many intertwining organisms.” The author personifies Tokyo as a working body, and these intertwining organisms are us, humans. He states that because family plays a significant role in traditional Japanese literature, any main character who is independent becomes a man who values freedom and solitude over intimacy. Most of his works use first-person narrative in the tradition of the Japanese I Novel.
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