Snow Country Chapter Summary & Analysis - Part Two, Pages 139 - 172 Summary

Part Two, Pages 139 - 172 Summary

Later, Shimamura hears Yoko singing while she bathes the innkeeper's daughter. She sings a song about birds in trees and it makes Shimamura wonder if he has seen her in a dream. Shimamura walks Komako home because she is drunk. He recounts some of his conversation with Yoko and Komako says that Yoko is "foolish," and that he does not have to tell her about the conversation. She then asks Shimamura if "you'd like to have her." She then says it is not really what she wants because "if she were to fall in the hands of someone like you she might not go crazy after all." At her house, she invites Shimamura inside. He follows her in, stays for a short time then leaves with Komako saying she will walk him back as far as the inn, but then she follows him inside to his own room.

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