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This paper aims to review Murakami Haruki’s motif in Men without Women. The result of reviewing two short stories and the is as fllowings: 1. Haruki used to write about a cool young man in his late 50s abandoned by a woman. 2. Haruki’s technique of showing his work’s motif first, focuses on writer’s loneliness by image rather than on depicting the men who were abandoned by women. 3. The writer exposes the social problem of dying alone of old men in his late fifties abandoned by a woman, which gets more and more serious in the contemporary Japanese society. 4. While dealing with such problems with social phenomena, Haruki didn’t suggest the solution, only indirectly alluding to the man’s solitude and appearance in the text. 5. This method of writing led readers to imagine and complete the final content of the novel. 6. This kind of writing style contributes to stimulating the reader’s imagination and increasing the number of international readers.
