The Garden Of Evening Mists Short Story

In the Garden of Evening Mists, the characters, from the typical Malaysian individual to the cultured Chinese-Malaysian elite and the British settler, each strives to endure amid this turbulent period of Malaysia. At the ground of this society there are the peasants, who are viewed as possessions: slayed by communists and abused by alien landlords. For them the Japanese occupation is not much distinctive from the British rule. For some it is finer than the British governance. The Chinese-Malaysian elite receive the same restricted “free” of Sartre’s “bad choice.” Sartre points out the crisis of folks making decision under strained conditions which he called bad faith. Caught between a rock and a hard place their decision is sculpted by the rocks and this circumstance is comparable to the “follow the request of the stone” (Keane 135) philosophy of building Japanese gardens. It illustrates one the most fundamental conventions in plotting a garden and represents the typical Malaysian’s crisis. Ironically Yun Ling must comply with this

At that moment it struck me that he was similar to the boulders on which we had spent the entire morning working. Only a small portion was revealed to the world; the rest was buried deep within, hidden from view. (Tan 90)
Aritomo is the perfect illustration of an optimal spy: he is one of the protagonists in the fiction yet we cannot view his real character; he is in gloom like those in Plato’s cave. Is it a mark of declining the apparent shared guilt? This fiction shall be the antipode of Ruth Ozeki’s work A Tale for the Time Being when Ozeki seeks to reveal the Japan’s intention in assaulting America and the occupation of Asia.
The Garden of Evening Mists is filled with intensely delicate remarks to the interrelationship of Chinese, Japanese, and Malay history and culture. The fiction has found the superlative analogy to assemble Yun Ling’s remembrances into a calamitous