She represents wifely devotion, forbearance and chastity.
Modern readers often feel uncomfortable with the conflicting relationship between women's ability and wifely duty and the general tone of subordination to men encompassed within the play.
However, she also maintains the dignity of her wifely obligations to her husband.
Although the wives show concern for their husbands out of wifely katagi, the men never listen and always do what they think is best.
They shared an outrageous lifestyle epitomized by his suspending her from a balcony in a failed attempt to intimidate her into wifely submission.
Still, the women try to prepare her for her wifely duties.
She then decided to leave her family, which contradicted what was seen as her wifely duty.
The income of the husband, being very much below, he returns his own income, and the wife—out of wifely affection—declines to give him any information with regard to her income.
