Then Goro, a marriage broker, arrives and proposes that she divorce Pinkerton, telling her that even if he does come back, he will leave her and take the child with him. As time goes by, Cho-Cho-San is still convinced that Pinkerton will return to her some day, but her maid, Suzuki, becomes increasingly skeptical. In his absence and unbeknown to him, she gives birth to their child, a son whom she names Trouble. Pinkerton's ship eventually sets sail from Japan. When they learned that they would not be allowed to visit they disowned Cho-Cho-San. His young bride, Cho-Cho-San, is a geisha whose family was strongly in favour of the marriage until Pinkerton forbade them from visiting. On the suggestion of his friend Sayre, he takes a Japanese wife and house for the duration of his stay there.

It was published in Century Magazine in 1898, together with some of Long's other short fiction.Īn American naval officer, Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, arrives in Japan to take up his duties on a ship docked in Nagasaki. It is based on the recollections of Long's sister, Jennie Correll, who had been to Japan with her husband, a Methodist missionary, and was influenced by Pierre Loti's 1887 novel Madame Chrysanthème.

' Madame Butterfly' is a short story by American lawyer and writer John Luther Long.

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