Arthur Golden's
Memoirs of a Geisha
Sayuri's self-deception
Self-deception:
noun. The act of deceiving oneself or the state of being deceived by oneself.
*Sayuri deceives herself through her overactive imagination and refusal to accept reality and sometimes the hardship that is her life.*
The fine line between Hope and Deception. Hope and optimism become deception when one allows them to control one’s life.
1.When her mother is dying, she convinces herself that Mr. Tanaka will adopt her. “From that very moment on, I began to have fantasies that Mr. Tanaka would adopt me.”
“Wasn’t it possible that my family would be moving to Kyoto, that we would buy a new altar together and set up the tablets before it.”
-denial of parents death.
“since the very week she’d run away, I’d carried a belief shrouded somewhere in the back of my mind that the course of our lives would one day bring us together again.”
-denial of sister's abandonment.