Interpreter of Maladies

Dr. Randolph’s class was a celebration of literature and discourse. The texts selected by Dr. Randolph helped me explore my own identity. Also, Dr. Randolph assigned a variety of classic poems and modern literary texts for the purpose of promoting discourse in small groups. By promoting discourse, students are not just reading a text. Instead, Dr. Randolph encouraged analysis of the texts on a personal and societal level through class discussion and writing assignments. Dr. Randolph repeatedly…

He is the basis for the protagonist in the closing and last story in her short story- collection, Interpreter of Maladies, The Third and Final Continent. Lahiri's mother wanted her children to grow up knowing their heritage,which was Bengali, and her family often visited relatives in Calcutta (Kolkata).She is an Indian American author. Lahiri's debut collection of short story, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was…

Socio-Psychological, Cultural disparities, Alienation, Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake, Gogol. Socio-Psychological dynamics of cultural disparities in Jhumpa Lahiri’s namesake. Jhumpa Lahiri, who won the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2000 for her Interpreter of Maladies, is a brilliant novelist. Her first novel The Namesake forms the basis of the present study. Lahiri has the first-hand experience to authentically portray the diasporic experience of the…

Having an affair with someone when you know that person is married is wrong, especially if you’re messing up your relationship.. Well, in the short story “Sexy” from Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, Miranda was in a beauty store and met a married guy named Dev. Dev’s wife is leaving for India, so Miranda doesn’t really care for him being married. Dev starts to have an affair with Miranda while his wife is gone. The theme of the short story is infidelity is immoral because she knows that…

story from her debut short story collection Interpreter of Maladies (1999) from a feminist angle and to explore the subtle nuances of female…

The family is recognized as the most important unit in society. The Nuclear Family is the traditional American model of the family unit. While it is mostly associated with archaic thinking or old TV shows, the nuclear family structure affects our culture even today. Having the perfect family is the cherry on top of having the American Dream. What happens then when this is applied to a family that is not necessarily nuclear, like Shoba and Shukumar in Jhumpa Lahiri’s short Story “A Temporary…

She is the author of bestselling novels such as The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland. She received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for her work Interpreter of Maladies. Her stories mostly depict the reality of immigrant life in the United States and explore on the conflicts in personal and cultural relationships. For her writings, she has helped Americans understand the difficulties endured by immigrants…

“The Embassy of Cambodia,” written by Zadie Smith, tells the story of Fatou, a young woman from Ivory Coast working in London, from the point of view of those living around her. Through her journey, Smith sheds light on the plight of thousands of immigrants and oppressed people, and the west’s indifference to their suffering. The culture driven need for success and accomplishment has caused Western culture to become more self centered than ever before. Consumerism drives people’s desire for…

Not all the stories in ‘Interpretation of maladies’ very much like Lowland (2003) or Namesake (2013) offers a diasporic reading but some of them like When mr. Pirzada came to dine, a real durwan and the third and final continent do. Lahiri has weaved her own ‘India’ in her stories reflecting it…

There are many testaments conserved in archive (in works of literature and historical documents) that narrate the experiences of the immigrants and their history, others talk about soldiers in the Vietnam War while other narrate about poverty and the great depression. Such history and english works are important because they communicate the truth about the experiences of American in relation to these factors. In addition, the literary and historical documents describe real or fictional events…