the music lessons

In the play “ The Music Lessons” by Wakako Yamauchi two of the main characters are in engaged in a dialogue which is common for a mother and a daughter to have. In act two, scene four, Chizuko and Aki seem to express frustration to each other after Aki coming home late after a music lesson with Kaoru. Chizuko knows something is very wrong for her young daughter spending so much time with a grown man, …

…to protect her daughter from being hurt. Aki loves her mother but is blinded by the love she is feeling towards Kaoru. Love became the source of this frustration between the two and in the end result nothing is solved. In conclusion, the mother and daughter end up going to bed mad, and in any argument when frustration is involved nothing gets solved until the two parties take the time to listen to each other.