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The novel ‘The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea’ by Yukio Mishima tells the story of a group of disturbed thirteen year-old boys who share a nihilistic view of the world. There are six boys in the group, and they are assigned a number to signify their importance within the group starting from “number five” right up to the “Chief” who is the leader of the group. Yukio Mishima conveys the behaviors the boys share through three main tools, the chief himself, Noburu and Ryuji’s relationship, and the group meetings the boys share. This essay will further discuss these points and show how Mishima convincingly conveys the dispassion and hatred for society that the boys share. Out of the group of boys, the one known as the “Chief” in the novel has the strongest and most forward views on society and life in general. The Chief feels that society is basically meaningless and that any type of authority towards him and the boys, especially fathers, is an insult to their own perceptions of being geniuses. Mishima uses the Chief to show the belief that all the boys share through his leadership and influence in the group. A good example of this is early in the novel when the boys go to the Chiefs’ house to gruesome