Era authors. Two prominent works that depict this idea include Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies”. Heart of Darkness portrays the travels of the young explorer Marlow. In his travels, Marlow discovers it may be harder than he thought for him to maintain his sanity as he is bombarded with different cultural variations. Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” on the other hand contrast the more common perspective being on the outside looking in, to being on the
transform East Pakistan into an independent country known as Bangladesh. The story highlights the longings of a Bangladeshi scholar Mr. Pirzada, who visits America to study the flora of New England, for his war-ridden family in Bangladesh. ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ is the third story of the book in which American born Indian couple Mr. and Mrs. Das with their children visit to India to see Udaigiri and Khandagiri, and, eventually, Mrs. Das narrates her life’s dark secrets to their chauffeur Mr. Kapasi
attempt to analyse the various issues faced by the immigrants as portrayed in Lahiri’s novel first novel The Namesake. The story of the novel is set in United States, Calcutta hovers in the background. . It is out of her experiences of the bizarre identity crisis on the part of those who have remained as immigrants and those who were traumatized by homelessness, that the contents of the novel The Namesake were derived. Jhumpa Lahiri admits that as the novel conveys the experiences of alienation of the
She has travelled several times to India, where both her parents were born and raised, and where a number of stories in “Interpreter of Maladies” are set. She is a graduate of Barnard College, where she received a B.A. in English literature and of Boston University, where she received an M.A. in English, M.A. in creative writing and M.A. in Comparative studies in Literature and the
In Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story “Sexy”, featured in her novel Interpreter of Maladies, she introduces the character of Miranda. Miranda is a 22- year old single American woman living alone in Boston. In the beginning of the story she meets an older man named Dev, who is married, but regardless the two become romantically involved. Although Miranda is aware that Dev is married, she still participates in an affair with him. Throughout her randevu with Dev, she developes a false reality for their relationship