Evening Faces

             Evening faces, as intrigued as I was with the title, I often found the text difficult to follow at times.  However, I love the comparison of the white flower and of the mystery of the lady off a far.  The correlation of a white flower, being quite beautiful but out of place, serves for both the beautiful flower growing on a vine in a poor area as well as a pretty, frail girl of statue living in a rundown area.  At the beginning of story I felt that Genji was royalty, because how he reverences himself within the carriage but I wondered what would bring him to such a region to see an ill nun.  Yet I believe because the loyalty that he must have felt for his nursemaid, which now a nun, is what lures him. "I think I need not ask whose face it is, So bright, this evening face, in the shining dew."  So romantic, love at first sight of a figure so far off leads me to believe that the Genji is lead by the mystery of it all. His curiosity grows as he receives an answer to the mystery woman and his curiosity is continuously fed, as he is drawn to her like a moth to a flame.  "Come a bit nearer, please. Then might you know whose was the evening face so dim in the twilight."  Again evening faces, I believe is used to illustrate the young lady as described by the white flowers so carefully placed in an unusual setting of a depressed area however, showing beauty and elegance, both being out of place is whats intriguing at the same time.  This keeps the attention of the reader, because of the mystery of them both.