Often times, a man would become an apprentice geisha's danna, which means that he would have exclusive benefits with her as well as pay off the debts she owes to her okiya. The wealthy men of Japan that were married could afford a geisha- a woman trained to entertain men with conversation, song, and dance. These are memoirs of another kind" -Sayuri. In the society that Sayuri grew up in, it was a woman's job to serve the men. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. "You cannot say to the sun, 'More sun.' Or to the rain, 'Less rain.' To a man, geisha can only be half a wife.
She is a smooth, free-flowing girl that always finds a way around every challenge she encounters. From the very beginning of the story, Sayuri had proven that she "has water in her". These quotes clearly depict who the main character Sayuri is. And when trapped, water makes a new path." "My mother always said my sister, Satsu was like wood. And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?" Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water. It can wash away earth it can put out fire it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of the box. "I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Tanaka, my life would have been a simple stream flowing from our tipsy house to the ocean." -Sayuri "We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
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