Compare and contrast Kitaru's and Tanimura's feelings about taking baths.

Murakami uses the bathtub and its associated connotations in order to shed even more light on the characters of Tanimura and Kitaru. He portrays fun-loving and spontaneous Kitaru as loving baths for their ability to help him relax enough to accept good ideas that come to him. Tanimura, on the other hand, is portrayed as disliking baths because he gets bored sitting in one place for so long without anything else to do, feelings that connect to his status as a character who is predictable, conventional, and structured.