![]() ![]() Somehow, through all this, Lahiri keeps us reading. Marriages end, parents neglect us, children die, and families are separated. ![]() The narrators of most of the stories (especially the first one) are getting you to lower your expectations for happiness, not just in these stories, but for life in general. The "gray waves" from this story and the weeping from "A Temporary Matter" show us that these characters are definitely not "fine." Sen's" ends, with a narrator who observes-at middling distance-the sadness of the whole situation.Įliot, for instance, "looked out the kitchen window, at gray waves receding from the shore, and said that he was fine" (MS 129). Notice, by the way, that this story ends much the same way that "Mrs. The first story actually ends with weeping: "They wept together, for the things they now knew" (ATM 104). That's because everyone seems to encounter some kind of grievous loss. Prepare a box of Kleenex because, even though there are nine different narrators in the book, they all have-at some point-a mournful quality to their narration. Elegiac, Matter-of-Fact, Wonderment Elegiac, or "You can't always get what you want" ![]()
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