The Good Daughter 大塚家具の行く末

Japanese follows English.　英語の後に日本語が続きます。

I wonder why they quit jobs to go back to their parents' businesses. I'm talking about Takako Matsudaira, one of the characters of "Hageraka (Vulture)," a TBS's TV drama, and Kumiko Otsuka, the president of Otsuka Kagu, a Japanese furniture company in real world. Takako, a daughter of the owner of a luxurious hotel, came back to rebuild the hotel on the verge of bankruptcy, while Kumiko, coming back to her father's company, taking over the business after a battle against him and currently considering selling it after failing to rebuild it.

Both daughters are good, graduating from prestigious universities, joining large corporations and leaving the jobs to join the family business for the family, but ending up starting to fight their parents and siblings for what? For parents' love or money? I don't think so. They came back just because of their too strong attachment to their parents or their childhood worlds, which no longer exist.

I often take up children's attachment issues in this blog and believe that they are more typical among daughters who are good at sontaku, i.e., performing pre-emptive acts to ingratiate themselves to their superiors, including their parents. It took me (who was a "good" daughter) almost five years to be independent from my parents. I don't care about the TV character, but hope that Kumiko will find a good buyer of the business to start her own life.

何で仕事を辞めて、実家に戻ってきてしまったのだろう。TBSのドラマ「ハゲタカ」で沢尻エリカ演じるキャラクターと、大塚家具の久美子社長のことである。沢尻エリカ演じるタカコは実家のホテルを継ぐために、久美子社長は実家を継ぐために、それぞれ勤めていたホテルと銀行を辞めて戻ってきた。そしてどちらも両親兄弟姉妹と大喧嘩の果てに家業を継いでいる。

親への強すぎる愛着については既に何度か書いているが、忖度しすぎる娘はその典型だと思う。ちなみに聞き分けのよすぎる忖度娘だった私は自立に5年もかかった（いや今も戦いは続いている）。ハゲタカの方はどうでもいいが、久美子社長については、早くいい売却先を見つけ、自分自身の人生をスタートしてほしいと願うばかりである。