Previous
Book 3, Chapter 6
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Reality and Subjective Experience
Free Will
Desire and Irrationality
The Personal Impact of War
Social Alienation
Summary
Analysis
According to a magazine article, an enigmatic company recently acquired the infamous “hanging house.” Rumors say that the company is affiliated with the Akasaka corporation and is acting on behalf of a mysterious individual known as Mr. X (Toru). The report delves into the house's history and raises speculation about Mr. X’s intentions for the property. Notably, someone had a massive wall equipped with a security camera erected around the premises. Additionally, the new owner hired a landscaper to excavate a well.
In addition to Cinnamon and May’s passages, the narration also employs a fourth point-of-view via newspaper and magazines articles. Murakami writes these chapters like they are the articles themselves. These chapters always reveal important information, though they do so through implications and pseudonyms. Evidently, Toru and Nutmeg reached an agreement, which ended in purchasing the Miyawaki home, referred to here as the “hanging house.”
Themes
