NatsumeSouseki 2.0: The role of the widow

The role of the widow

As the teacher accepted, it can be said that the relationship between the young lady and the teacher and the young lady and K were all controlled by her wife. It makes sense for your wife to select a teacher with a wealth.
Therefore, there seems to be controversy about making his wife and young lady "strategy". It was interpreted that the triangular relationship was intentionally created to make the teacher feel that way, and that the teacher was impatient and stepped into a suit.

There seems to be some controversy about the relationship between "I" and his wife.
This problem should first be sorted out in this way.

△ Your wife is a tactician.
○ A man is swung around by a woman.

Because

My anguish begins only when I see the question of whether a young lady, like her wife, is not a plotter. I suddenly became painful and unbearable when I argued that they were doing everything after meeting with me behind the scenes. Not unpleasant. It becomes a dead end feeling like a desperate situation. And yet, on the other hand, I firmly believed in the lady and did not doubt. So I stood in the middle of my beliefs and hesitation and couldn't move any more. I was both imagined and both were true.
(From Natsume Soseki's "Kokoro")

Being dazzled by this ambiguity is the root of literature.
This, too, was unexpectedly told, but the teacher turned his wife into a childless widow. The affection for his wife included in the teacher's letter seems purely pure, but what he came to his wife was

① I didn't have sex with my wife for a long time
② I made my wife a young widow with no children

It is as if the wife is being punished.
The declaration that the child cannot be reached forever indicates that the teacher and his wife are sexless and that she is of child-bearing age.
When you realize that, this scene brings a different meaning.

"I'd like to be a child," he said. I replied, "Yes." But there was no sympathy in my mind. I had never had a child, and I was thinking of my child just as a fly.
"Let's get one," said the teacher.
"You're a kid, hey, you," said the wife again.
"I can't do anything for a child," said the teacher.
His wife was silent. When I asked instead, "Why," he laughed high, saying, "Because it's a punishment."
(From Natsume Soseki's "Kokoro")

Did you notice here that Soseki did not write, "Because I am a punishment for me." And because he refuses his wife's request to make a child, "temporal punishment" can be read as if it had been given to him. The teacher doesn't particularly want children, so if he doesn't feel negative about what he can't do, that's the reason.
Even worse, as suggested at the beginning, if you have a hobby that enjoys swimming with one western monkey, your wife and sexless will not be a penalty for yourself.
If you have written so far, you will not have to swallow the last word.
A punishment is a punishment that a person cannot give. It is a punishment given by Tendo. Heaven does not punish innocent things.

I will leave my wife. It's a makeover that my wife doesn't have to worry about eating, eating, and living when I'm gone. I don't like giving my wife cruel surprise. I will die without showing my wife the color of blood. I will secretly leave the world without my wife's knowledge. I want my wife to die after I die. I'm happy to be crazy.
(From Natsume Soseki's "Kokoro")

I intend to use my past for others, both good and evil. But know that your wife is the only exception. I don't want to tell my wife anything. My only hope is to keep my wife's memories of her past as pure white as possible, so even after my death, as long as my wife is alive, you are the only one Keep everything in my stomach as my confidential secret.
(From Natsume Soseki's "Kokoro")

Contrary to the care given to the wife included in the teacher's letter, the self-death of the teacher is also an unnatural violence that creates one widow, and the possibility that it is a punishment given to the wife can not be denied .
Which is harder, cruel momentary surprise or long loneliness?

I read in a newspaper what I wrote down before General Nogi's death. When I saw my dying excuse to die because of the enemy's flag during the Southwest War and saw a phrase that meant that I was just alive today, I broke my finger involuntarily and Nogi I counted the years in which she came alive while preparing to die. Since the Southwestern War is in the Meiji decade, there is a distance of 35 years by the year of Meiji 45. Nogi-san seemed to be dying for 35 years and was waiting for the opportunity to die. I thought that for those people, it would be more painful whether he had been alive for thirty-five years, or if the one-second moment of his sword struck his belly.
(From Natsume Soseki's "Kokoro")

Would the teacher choose a harder punishment?
If that were the case, writing "I" would have another meaning.

I had an almost faithful love for that person. You may find it strange to see this word I use only for religion applied to a young woman, but I still believe firmly. He firmly believes that true love is not so different from religion. Every time I looked at the lady's face, I felt like I would be beautiful. When I thought about the lady, I felt like a noble feeling would soon be transferred to me. If the mysterious thing of love has both ends, the high end is sacred, and the low end is sexual, my love certainly caught that high pole . I was a body that could not leave the flesh as a human. But my eyes looking at her and my mind thinking of her were not smelling meat at all.
(From Natsume Soseki's "Kokoro")