Sailor: A Duality of Noboru

In chapter 1, we already gain insight into Noboru's character. Two character traits that can be seen early in the novel are his Naivety and his Maturity.  Noboru is a thirteen year old child, but there is irony between his age and the way he already views the world around him, which can be seen through his descriptions.  Without even knowing Ryuji, the sailor who is presented as the mother's lover, Noboru already feels detestful towards him.  Something I find interesting about Noboru is that although he feels these emotions, it is unconscious to him, so he does not know what he sees.  The manner in which he describes the event of of seeing Ryuji and his mother together is really advanced for his age.  For example, the way he perceives Ryuji  as “His broad shoulders were square as the beams in a temple roof, his chest strained against a thick mat of hair, knotted muscle like twists of sisal hemp bulged all over his body" (Mishima 11).  His description is explicitly sexual, and it is not right for him to be spying on his mother through the peephole.  This also shows the ambiguity of Yukio Mishima's sexuality because the reader cannot decipher it by the way he describes Ryuji and Fusako, since the descriptions of them are so in-depth.