Arthur Golden's
Memoirs of a Geisha
Sayuri deceives others
Ironically, while Sayuri resents the deception she has experienced from others, she becomes a sucessful geisha who's sole role is to deceive others.
"How could Nubo possibly understand anything about me when he'd seen me solely as a geisha keeping my true self carefully concealed."
Geisha talk a certain way, they are named a certain way but they also act a certain way.
"Tokyo geisha are more apt to be sassy, while geisha from Kyoto are more demure."
This is no coincidence, they are trained this way. Sayuri is just the same.
"And if you had seen my face, you might have thought no subject had ever interested me more. I felt ridiculous, pretending to be absorbed by something so trivial."
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"I was no longer known as Chiyo. I was the novice geisha Sayuri...I thought Sayuri was a lovely name, but it felt strange not to be known as Chiyo any longer".
"It was as if the little girl named Chiyo running barefoot from the pond to her tipsy house, no longer existed. I felt that this new girl, Sayuri, with her gleaming white face and red lips, had destroyed her."
A geisha is trained to entertain every sort of men. They learn the art of conversation, dialect and how to be "the japenese ideal of the perfect woman."
" Of course everyone langhed, and I pretented to laugh too."
While Geisha means "artist", it might as well mean deceiver.