What are the character traits of Chiyo in Memoirs of a Geisha?
Chiyo, the fictional character in Arthur Golden’s book, loosely based on the lives of two actual geisha he interviewed, was a young child who, along with her sister, sold in to a geisha house when her mother and father fell ill. She lived in a fishing town, poor, and is separated when taken one evening to be sold, from her sister, who is deemed too country to be of use in the high end geisha house chiyo is accepted in. Her sister is sent to a hot springs resort; a sort of lower class geisha house that focused less on the artistic pursuits of geisha, and more on the sexual. In the beginning, Chiyo is what I’d call a scrappy little chick- she’s tough, uncertain and scared, but also strong. Her eyes are blue, an unusual trait, which leads everyone to believe she has too much water in her; which is part of the culture’s belief in elemental balance withi a person. Chiyo gets into some scraps- mainly b/c she’s determined to reunite with her sister, and b/c the older famed Geisha, Hatsumomo,
