as an example, geist cites the scene in which noriko and hattori bicycle together to the beach and have a conversation there, an incident that appears to imply a budding romantic relationship between them. when noriko slightly later reveals to her father that hattori, before that bicycle trip, had already been engaged to another woman, "we wonder", writes geist, "why ozu has wasted so much time on the 'wrong man' [for noriko]." however, the key to the beach scene’s importance to the plot, according to geist, is the dialogue between hattori and noriko, in which the latter tells him that she is "the jealous type." this seemingly unlikely claim, given her affable nature, is later confirmed when she becomes bitterly jealous at her father’s apparent plan to remarry. "her jealousy goads her into her own marriage and is thus the pivot on which the plot turns."