Hahna Character Analysis

Hana is a Japanese, shy, kind, loyal and an independent girl. Her whole life changes when she moves to America to be a wife to a man named Taro Takeda. Whom she had not even looked at in person but had only looked at in a picture which her uncle had shown her. She had only heard stories of his profitability. She comes all the way to America crossing several oceans to marry a man in the hope of a better life than her sisters. Hana is a sympathetic character because of her kind nature to help people as evidenced by her help given to the superintendent when he needed some money and to Yamaka when he was ill with influenza. In chapter 9, Yamaka gets sick with serious influenza which develops into pneumonia later on. He is treated by Dr. Kaneda in the church. When she hears about the bad news, she immediately decides to go. She
At first, she is hesitant to give the Women’s Society money but later she agrees to give him the twenty-five dollars and fifty cents. Later, that week when the superintendent left for Japan without telling anyone with the money, she felt so angry about it as he had tricked her into to giving him the money. and Mr. Nishima felt emotionally overwhelmed but she acted with great confidence to try to repay that money. “Pray for him, indeed, Hana thought indignantly. The miserable man had lied and had deceived her. And to think he was her own countryman and a Christian at that” (62). Her actions make the reader feel that she is a sympathetic character. The reader can feel that Hana, the protagonist of the book Picture Bride is a sympathetic character because of her shy and kind nature by the pieces of evidence given above. The way in which Hana acts at certain scenes of the book makes the reader think that she is a sympathetic