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Analysis Of Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter Of Maladies

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Communication is the overtone argument of Jhumpa Lahiri’s all masterpieces and her debut work Interpreter of Maladies, which offered her around the world recognition, will be a standout amongst them. Interpreter of Maladies is a collection of nine flawless short stories, with an array of themes and sewed through admirable narrative styles and writing techniques.The ways Jhumpa Lahiri portrays relationships, in particular the institution of marriage has been emphasized by this paper and also discuss over the role of effective communication to conserve them sound furthermore concordant. Marriage as an institution bloom with love and understanding and fades with suspicion and non-communication. In all her …show more content…

The interesting aspect of Lahiri‘s writing is mainly her dedication to the simplicity of her language, which at the first sight can seem vague, but there is a precise choice of sentences, descriptions and even words as West points out: ―Lahiri‘s prose is both plain and yet simultaneously rich and evocative (West 259). Lahiri speaks about her preference of plain prose to the interviewer Isaac Chotiner: “I like it to be plain. It appeals to me more. There‘s form and there‘s function and I have never been a fan of just form” (Lahiri, Jhumpa Lahiri). She experiments with various narrative voices in her work, what makes her works even more interesting, because of including a variety of genders, nationalities and ages. Lahiri compellingly exhibits that all marriages, arranged or not, are unique and relying on the exertions and the communication of the individuals. A marriage is the knot that two people tie with love and concern for each other however, one of the most mandatory ethics of this association is communication . The pair shares their hopes, aspirations, grief and experience of life, but the stories full about hitching euphoria could not be anticipated here by the reader. Lahiri crystallizes different attitudes and attributes of marriages in this collection of tales but One thing which bore upon the married couple most is silence and miscommunication between them. A number of couple introduced in these narrations by the writer whom in an initial gaze reader find normal, but as soon as the story grow the tension and turmoil between them is rather noticeable. This paper purports to realize the outcome of communication on marital relationships with example of these four stories of the

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