What is the symbolic significance of the well mentioned at the beginning of Norwegian Forest?

Regarding the interview with Murakami, the reporter asked you that "wells" always appear in your works. Is there any special significance? Most people think that the well is gloomy. Do you think so? I don't remember the specific answer clearly, but Murakami said that I felt that the well was very quiet. His ideal life is to read and write in the well and never come out.

I was shocked when I saw it. It is estimated that everyone's idea is that the well is gloomy, symbolizing a black hole or something, struggling in a painful life. But it happened that Murakami thought the well was very good and he was eager to stay in it all the time. Murakami thinks differently from us. After all, his knowledge, knowledge, experience and so on are different, so the thinking projected on Watanabe is different, and so is Naoko. Just as many people find reading Norwegian Wood depressing, lonely and painful, it may not be the case in Murakami's eyes at all. After all, this story was written by him in his forties. At the age of 40, he should have experienced a more peaceful mind and a broader mind, while we are only in our twenties, and what we see is gloomy, depressed and lonely, so it seems that the well has become a dark existence. Personally, I think I will answer this question when I am 40 years old.

Author: Monica

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