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So i was reading 吾輩は猫である and i came across these sentences.

> 「吾輩は投げ出されては這い上り、這い上っては投げ出され、何でも同じ事を四五遍繰り返したのを記憶している。その時におさんと云う者はつくづくいやになった。」

For this following line:

> その時におさんと云う者はつくづくいやになった。

I initially thought that it meant おさんは（私が）嫌になった。 Osan came to dislike/hate me.

But i am told instead that it's the opposite; （私は）おさんが嫌になった。 I came to hate
Osan.

Did i miss something here? Does the は somehow function as a が in this
sentence?

Thank you in advance.
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Confusion btw は・が with 嫌になった
You might already understand this, but let me check the basics again. First,
the case particle that marks the subject and the object for 嫌い or 嫌になる is,
either way, が. i.e. Aが Bが 嫌い (though this topicless sentence can't be a valid
sentence without some conditions). When the subject is topicalized, it becomes
Aは Bが 嫌い. When it comes to the object, Bは Aが 嫌い. When it happens to both, Aは
Bは 嫌い.

Now, the reason the example uses は is, for one, because the sentences around
the example one are already speaking of the woman(?) おさん and we want to
indicate it as the topic, though how it uses その時 is a factor that inclines to
use of が, on the other hand.

For another reason, I feel how the predicate stands for a negative feeling is
perhaps a factor. This is something difficult to explain but sense of
separating it with topicalization perhaps has something common with so-called
contrastive は or how English speakers prefer "that" to "this" in a certain
situation.

Edit: Reasons for topicalization are the same, even if multiple words are
topicalized.

  1. Indicates shared information (often called topical or thematic は): ◯◯さんは こういうのは どうですか？ → そうですね…私は こういうのは 嫌いです (In this reply, these repeated words tend to be omitted in practice.)*

  2. Contrastive は: （△△さんは好きなようだが）私は…、（そういうのうはともかく）こういうのは…嫌い

  3. Agrees to the negative predicate (a kind of the contrastive usage): This can be important when you highlight the word to negate among multiple words. e.g. 私は 昨日 そこには 行っていない vs 昨日は そこに… However, it's often used just because the predicate is negative even if there's only one word before it.

These factors are independent from (thus don't necessarily contradict with)
each other. In the example case, if the questioner has asked someone else
before hand and s/he has answered the opposite, or は is pronounced with
stress, it's more likely to be interpreted as a contrastive usage. However, it
still indicates the shared information. When it's neither really topical or
contrastive, it tends to be explained with the remaining factor, the third
one.

* I often hear a theory that claims there should be only one thematic は, but I wonder which should be the theme in this case.
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