![]() ![]() Just as Eriko once advised her, Mikage finds that her experiences with suffering enable her to have a profound understanding of the joy that cooking fills her with. Mikage is obsessed with kitchens and finds them extremely comforting in her darkest moments. ![]() Yoshimoto symbolizes Mikage’s pain with metaphors of darkness throughout the novel, while light represents Mikage’s joy. Mikage has lived in the shadow of death her whole life and battles a deep sense of loneliness and isolation throughout the story, though she knows the only thing she can do is keep on going. ![]() The story thus revolves around Mikage’s visceral experiences of grief-in the first half of the story, she grieves her grandmother, and in the second half of the story, Mikage grieves Eriko, who forms a motherly bond with Mikage when she and her son Yuichi take Mikage in. Mikage was raised by her grandmother, who died a few days before the story begins. The protagonist and narrator of Kitchen, whose mother and father died when she was very young. ![]()
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