A woman’s journey: The significance of the uphill road Essay
Road
In The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi, the uphill road that Tomo ascends in exhaustion (Onnazaka, women’s hilly road) is “symbolic of the struggles and trials that women must endure while sacrificing everything as victims of feudalism.” (willamette.edu) It presents to us the Japanese woman who is struggling to find her voice amidst the suffocating…