Osamu Dazai’s attempts summarised
- SHAME
He overdoses on sleeping pills to avoid the shame of failing school.
He survives.
- DESPAIR
He goes to a bar and drinks with a bartender for two days straight. He tells her life feels unbearable, and suggests they end it together.
They walk across the beach and into the water, unbothered by where it ends.
She does not come back. He does.
3.HUMILIATION
At 26, unemployment stopped being temporary and started being personal. He tried to correct it the only way he seemed to know.
He chose a rope.
- REPUTATION
his wife had an affair with his best friend. he found out
To salvage what remained of their reputation, they agreed on shinju(double suicide). sleeping pills again. both survived. they divorced and moved on.
- INEVITABILITY
He gets into a relationship with a woman named Tomie, whose husband recently died in the war.
Two adults in a room, both depressed, both preoccupied with death.
June 13, 1948. They jump into a canal together. They drown.
Their bodies are found six days later. It is Dazai’s thirty-ninth birthday.
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