Memoirs of a Geisha- Chapter 4

This girl is very brave and she actually listens to all the commands these people are giving her. It must have been really hard trying to figure out whom to listen to, from the annoying granny to the complaints of Hatsumomo. What exactly are they trying to train her to do exactly anyway? The kimonos these people where in the house seem so fancy and pretty. I would like to see one of these kimonos they keep talking about. They are so expensive for just a dress like thing. I would even be afraid to wear them because just repaying the cost to have them fixed if something is wrong with them would even be expensive. This Hatsumomo girl seems very spoiled. Why does everyone have to treat her so nicely especially since she is so cruel to Chiyo and she did not even do anything to her at all? The other little girl in the house that Chiyo calls pumpkin seems very scared and worried. She has to obey every rule or she feels extremely guilty. She must have gotten beat pretty badly or something to be behaving how she is. The lessons the girls have to go through seem kind of fun, but a lot of hard work and concentration. That would be horrible to not be good at a particular talent though because the teacher picks on them pretty badly then. I think that Hatsumomo is going to be a pain in the future especially since the teacher just laughed when Chiyo told her that was the only geisha girl in their house.