There are different reasons for confidence to take a leading place on the way to success. Seiko Tenabe, an outstanding Japanese novelist and fiction author, and Pham Thi Hoai, a famous Vietnam novelist, are the masters of Asian literature. The main topics of their works are love, belief, obstacles and personal preferences on the way of achieving goals. It is very important to be confident and to know what you want in life in order to succeed and to make the goals come to pass. Confidence and self-esteem are the main qualities to move forward in life. According to the novel The Innocent by Seiko Tenabe, the main character is Sachiko. She is a young beautiful girl who wants to get married but can not find that special someone. Having a man she likes, she still thinks of having someone better and can not really understand what she wants. She is small by complexion, has a nice figure and a lovely face that gives her a special seductive charm. On the other side, there is one of the main characters of the novel Nine Down Makes Ten written by Pham Thi Hoai, the Ninth Man, a person who knows what he wants. He is strict and pragmatic in everything he does. It makes him having a good stable position in life. Comparing Sachiko and the Ninth Man, it is possible to say that Sachiko fails to keep pace with him in the aspect of being confident in life. She is used to wear different masks suitable for different situations. Actually, it is the best way out sometimes. Both novelists have tried to do their best to show that being confidante is a winning position that will definitely lead to success and the truthfulness of this statement is proved by portraying the characters in a special way. Seiko Tenabe wanted to disclose a topic of a woman’s role in society and to show all possible ways of how a woman may get what she wants standing on her rights. Sachiko is a portrait of a person who is used to adapt to different situations that demand some peculiar way of behavior. Nevertheless, it is also very important to be oneself and do not fall below the present level but rise. Sachiko took the wrong way in life. “She found her behavior mean and disgusting” going out with am man she did not like at all to be one level higher from the social point of view (Tenabe 7). The Ninth Man is a contradiction to Sachiko. He easily overcomes all obstacles on his way and does everything possible to achieve what he needs. Pham Thi Hoai portrays the Ninth Man as a resistant person who always knows what he wants and that is what keeps him moving on being confident in whatever he does (35). Sachiko takes life the way it is. She is in love with a man but he does not really fit her life principles and prejudices. It goes without saying that nowadays it is difficult to meet a true love but Sachiko still wants to be totally loved and wants everything to be in her way knowing this fact. The only advantage out of all this is that there is no need to worry about something if one does not want to change life. However, there is also a big disadvantage that Sachiko gets what she wants but not the way she wants. She thinks that it would be nice for Kitazone, a man she wants to get married to, to be like one of her acquaintances Konno, a man of a strong wil