"What's weird?"
"The overall feeling is just very weird. Since you don't let me work and film, what do you want me to do? Be a housewife and meekly stay at home, just like most of those Japanese wives, only waiting for their husbands' return? You say you'll take care of me, but I feel that, this way, I'm no different from a canary kept in captivity of a cage."
Her calm account of her viewpoint, every part of it, made his heart be in a turmoil.
The Mu family was a textbook example of patriarchy.
Perhaps, certain views had been ingrained in his mind, but she would, from time to time, break these concepts.
Women needed to work.
Women needed to be financially independent.
Women could not solely rely on men.
…
She was indeed not quite the same as the other women.