A BRIEF STUDY OF JHUMPA LAHIRI’S FICTION STORY - A TEMPORARY MATTER

RAJU NALLI

A BRIEF STUDY OF JHUMPA LAHIRI’S FICTION STORY - A TEMPORARY MATTER

Authors: RAJU NALLI

Unique Paper ID: 172506
Volume: 11
Issue: 6
PageNo: 3933-3936

Keywords: Darkness

Abstract:
Generally speaking, we are used to the notion that evil things are best carried out in secret. For instance, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth desire darkness to carry out their sinister actions in Shakespeare's Macbeth. However, darkness is cleansed of this taint, at least in Jhumpa Lahiri's A Temporary Matter, which also happens to be the first story in the collection Interpreter of Maladies. The temporary darkness acts a blessing in disguise and saves a soured relationship. Before entering into the discussion, we are reminded here that Jhumpa Lahiri is a London-born second-generation expatriate. She was brought up in Rhodes Island. She bagged the Pulitzer Prize as the first person of South-Asian origin on 10th April, 2000 for her Interpreter of Maladies – a collection of 9 short stories. Embracing reality Lahiri in the stories chronicles the Indian experience - especially the East Indian one in America. She here focuses her attention on people – their relationship with each other, their subtle tensions, their moments of happiness and pain in an alien land. Truly the Interpreter of Maladies beautifully and poignantly addresses the issues of alienation, displacement, moral and emotional crisis, a sort of limbo in the so-called adopted homeland.

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ISSN: 2349-6002
Volume: 11
Issue: 6
PageNo: 3933-3936

A BRIEF STUDY OF JHUMPA LAHIRI’S FICTION STORY - A TEMPORARY MATTER

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