Name: Rosul Jasim Instructor: K. Layton Course: UPG 220-013: English 2 Date: 12, November 2014 The Reconciliation of Grief The short story by Bahrain Mukherjee “Management of Grief” the title indicates the basic theme of the story. The mother, Shaila, has lost her two sons and husband in a plane tragedy. The story shows how she goes through the stages of grief- rejection, dejection, recognition, and re-establishment while also having to cope in a foreign country. Individual attitudes towards death and grief are truly personal, and often culturally unavoidable. The tension people embody when they live within two or more distinct cultures and ways of knowing about different issues. Shaila lives in society where it is “multiculturalism”(Mukherjee 112) society, their expectation of grieving toward death is different from her culture and society. Therefore, as they see her calm and quiet and she does not shows any stage of grief, they“ thinking that [she is] strong, that knowledge is helpful to the …show more content…
She is shell-shocked by the rapid succession of devastating events, which make her confused from her attitudes, and “flutter between two worlds”(Mukherjee 118). Her grief will not make a difference because “[she tells herself] I have no right to grieve. They are in a better place than we are”(Mukherjee 114). People consider her callous and insensitive for not openly grieving, she said, “ I am not running away. I’m [just] pursuing inner peace”(Mukherjee 119). In this life everyone has right to grieve in our own way, therefore “we have to understand that”(Mukherjee 121). Furthermore, her “time has come, […]. Go be brave”(Mukherjee 123). Thus, her attitudes toward grief and the confusion in her mind come to reconciliation with herself, that She does not know where this journey will end. She does not know which path she will take. She knows that she has to move