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Convenience Store Woman

88 statements
16 feature instances
3 referencing feature instances

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Convenience Store Woman	comment	Convenience Store Woman (original title: ã‚³ãƒ³ãƒ“ãƒ‹äººé–“ / Konbini Ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese writer Sayaka Murata. It describes the life of Keiko Furukura and her fascination for Japanese convenience stores (konbini) as well as her struggles with interpersonal relationships and the expectations of society and friends that she just doesn't seem able to fulfill.
Convenience Store Woman	fetched	2024-04-13T21:45:08Z
Convenience Store Woman	parsed	2024-04-13T21:45:08Z
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Convenience Store Woman / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Convenience Store Woman / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: Keiko considers a Marriage of Convenience to Shiraha so people will get off her back about her total lack of interest in men (or anyone, for that matter).
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Convenience Store Woman / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Convenience Store Woman / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Deconstructed. Keiko wishes to be perceived as normal, but the things that people consider "normal" (marriage, a fancy career, kids) don't appeal to her. Furthermore, she only cares about coming off as normal because she doesn't want people to worry about her, or hassle her about life choices. If people would leave her be, Keiko would just keep working at the store, socializing only occasionally, not dating, and continued on her merry way, perfectly happy. In the end, she decides she doesn't care about seeming "normal" anymore, and resolves to keep doing her thing.
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Convenience Store Woman / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Convenience Store Woman / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: An acquaintance not-so-subtly implies that Keiko doesn't date (or at least, doesn't talk about it), because she's a lesbian. Keiko's just not interested in anyone that way.
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Convenience Store Woman / int_5a6bf62f	type	Happiness in Minimum Wage
Convenience Store Woman / int_5a6bf62f	comment	Happiness in Minimum Wage: Keiko's obsession with her menial job is one of her defining characteristics. Despite quitting her original job in an attempt to better fulfill societal expectations, by the end of the book she's taken up an identical role in a new store.
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Convenience Store Woman / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Convenience Store Woman / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Some of Shiraha's critiques of modern society are valid; the fact that there's constant pressure to conform to social norms even if breaking them isn't hurting anyone, and how, for all of people's talk about how much more diverse and accepting society is now, people who don't conform are still punished. The problem is, he's a colossal dickwad who does hurt people, and he's a hypocrite to boot.
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Convenience Store Woman / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Convenience Store Woman / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Foreign object," referring to how anything that doesn't belong is expunged from the system—be it an unruly employee at the convenience store, or a weirdo in larger society. "This place never changes", said by the customers about the convenience store. Since Keiko considers herself and the store to be one and the same, the phrase also applies to her. "Stone Age" is often said by Shiraha when he rants about society and gender roles, saying that how they were established from the very start and never changed even if humanity changed in other ways across the years.
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Convenience Store Woman / int_8c92054d	type	Chaotic Stupid
Convenience Store Woman / int_8c92054d	comment	Chaotic Stupid: Shiraha complains nonstop about his life, but sabotages any chance to improve it and insults everybody who tries to help him.
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Convenience Store Woman / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Convenience Store Woman / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: Keiko and Shiraha consider getting married just so people will accept them as more or less normal members of society. However, Keiko cannot go through with it as she just loves working in her Konbinis so much.
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Convenience Store Woman / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
Convenience Store Woman / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Keiko is asexual and sex-repulsed, a virgin at thirty-six and perfectly fine with that. Part of the conflict arises from the fact that no one else is fine with that. She's implied to be aromantic as well.
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Convenience Store Woman / int_b04fdcc4	type	Loners Are Freaks
Convenience Store Woman / int_b04fdcc4	comment	Loners Are Freaks: Keiko's lack of close friends or a romantic partner is a major sticking point for her family, who want her to be "cured" and join normal society. As a person, Keiko is harmless and usually polite, and her coworkers genuinely like her, since she's a team player, always eager to help out, and an expert at mirroring their tone and behavior to blend in. But she is undeniably weird.
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Convenience Store Woman / int_ba907fe2	type	Entitled to Have You
Convenience Store Woman / int_ba907fe2	comment	Entitled to Have You: Shiraha feels entitled to any woman he likes, not caring too much for her opinion on the matter. We don't see him assaulting a woman in the story, but he does stalk a few.
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Convenience Store Woman / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
Convenience Store Woman / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: Downplayed. Keiko doesn't hate kids (or anyone, it seems like), but finds them tiresome and doesn't see what all the fuss is over a newborn baby.
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Convenience Store Woman / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Convenience Store Woman / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The way Keiko perceives her convenience store and her work in it. To other people it's just a shop to buy a quick snack in, to her it's her life's purpose to the point that she regularly dreams of it and considers her first day of work her birth.
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Convenience Store Woman / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Convenience Store Woman / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Shiraha scorns societal norms and the pressure to conform to them at the cost of one's own happiness, but doesn't hesitate to push those same norms onto Keiko.
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Convenience Store Woman / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Convenience Store Woman / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Subverted. You might think that this is what caused Keiko to be how she is, and so did the therapist her parents saw, but Keiko assures the reader that she had a normal childhood with lovely parents.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Convenience Store Woman	hasFeature	Celibate Hero / int_d5dd348b
Convenience Store Woman	hasFeature	Happiness in Minimum Wage / int_d5dd348b
Convenience Store Woman	hasFeature	Mistaken for Gay / int_d5dd348b

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