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Kaonashi”) acts as a reflection of the father. The ability to pay, in his case gold, should let him do anything. But Chihiro makes No-Face aware that it is not so ‒ she will never accept anything from him because what she is searching for cannot be bought or consumed. From this realization, No-Face loses his reference points (his relational blueprint disintegrates) and enters a state of madness and destruction. His gluttony, however, is only a means to fill an emptiness given his despondency and anguish when he cannot buy the relationship with Chihiro.
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