Mrs. Hayashis Creative Outlet Essay -- Seventeen Syllables Hisaye Yom

Mrs. Hayashis Creative OutletWomen who break the traditional role of staying at home to care for their children and their household responsibilities lots need a creative outlet to express themselves, their ideas, or scarce to get away from monotony they experience in the day aft(prenominal) day domestic routine. Many women find various forms of art a fulfilling way to satisfy their need for personal expression. Similarly, in the short tosh Seventeen Syllables by Hisaye Yomamoto, the stay-at-home-mom, Tome Hayashi, discovers that she possesses a talent for writing haikus and finds it very fulfilling, as she is able to express herself well through the mere seventeen syllables contained in a haiku. Mrs. Hayashis passion for writing haikus appears to be present because she merely enjoys it however, writing becomes the only way she is able to express herself. Unfortunately, numerous barriers set(p) in front of her eventually leads to the smothering of her creative ambition. One of the major barriers that Mrs. Hayashi encounters is the difficulty of communicating with her daughter. As she begins writing haikus more frequently, she esteemes to have someone to share them with, but neither Rosie nor Mr. Hayashi seems interested. Rosie is unable to appreciate her mothers haikus because her mother writes in her native Japanese language, and Rosie does not speak it fluently, nor does she wish to. In his review of Seventeen Syllables in the book Masterplots II, Yasuko Akiyama insightfully notes that Mrs. Hayashis side of meat is no better than Rosies Japanese, thus creating a great(p) communication barrier Rosie did not want her mother to k like a shot concerning the shade and quantity of Japanese she had learned in all the years now that sh... ...self, she was smothered (Mistri 201). The barriers placed in the way of the pursuance of her dreams seemed too prominent for her to overcome because her husband could not let go of his simple-mindedness and her dau ghter could not bridge the communication gap present between them. She was forced hold into her tragically traditional role as a submissive, passive, and unhappy wife and mother. This depiction of a divided family offers no solution of how to overcome sympathetic struggles women may face even in todays society. However, women mustiness continue to explore ways to express their creativity uniquely and individually, as Tome Hayashi did, and not allow men to frown upon it and dictate what their role as women should be. Our world would be filled with much more creative art if more women like Tome Hayashi were given the opportunity to freely express themselves.