She doesn't pronounce her husband's name as according to Hindu belief it may lessen the life of a husband. To a great degree, her life is consumed by recreating Indian culture in America. The reluctance to change could also be direct result of the fact that she and others like her are...
Lahiri brings her enormous powers of description to her first novel, infusing scene after scene with profound emotional depth. Condensed and controlled, THE NAMESAKE covers three decades and crosses continents, all the while zooming in at very precise moments on telling detail, sensory richness, and...
Lahiri’s stories are mostly calm. There are some bigger changes in people’s lives and relationships, but even these are just larger-than-usual ripples on the surface of seemingly tranquil lives, not crashing waves. Her vantages and choices of perspective are interesting and unusual, and she ...
Jhumpa Lahiri's endeavour in interpreting the troubles of emigres is simple yet eloquent style of writing has put her amongst the top literary figures. The plot and characters are strategically bound to give an overall picture of the story. Her attempt to reconcile places and incidents with ...
Jhumpa Lahiri is, for the most part, clear and unobtrusive, despite the occasional clunky phrase (“the young man of colour” is more idiomatically “the young black”). Her introduction, on the other hand, is a small masterpiece of self-regard and best read after you’ve finished the ...
While she is not satisfied and knows that her husband is not committed to her, she is not able to either initiate resolutions or move forward with her life (Lahiri, 60-84). Pranab on the other hand adopts a more active role in his life. He for instance follows the narrator and her ...
First, as a young girl, she was pulled from her comfortable environment and thrown into an unknown culture. Furthermore, while it could be assumed that Ashima could not become an independent person, she indeed stood her ground and rewired herself later in the plot, moving from her husband. ...
But still she sacrifices all her comforts for the sake of her family and like the typical traditional Indian women; her life revolves around her husband and children.Indu. B
The husband, Shukumar, transforms what would have been the baby's nursery into his own workspace, dismantling the nursery before bringing Shoba back from the hospital. Shukumarworks on his dissertation in this space "delib- erately,partlybecause the room soothed him, and partlybecause it was...
By not going down the road of marriage and motherhood in America, she does not have to take anyone else into consideration. She has not even maintained ties to her Indian family, and she is regarded as "an anomaly, an Indian woman alone" (8).Lahiri has portrayed the women in her ...