The Interpreter of Maladies is a book made of seemingly unrelated short stories that share many similar themes and endings. Lahiri uses every one of the stories to show how people seek a connection. In addition Larhiri illustrates how stories that begin completely differently can end the same way. She uses the endings similarly, to show how the endings all have a deeper meaning that is shown by the emotion of the character or description of the world to make the reader feel differently than they conventionally would. The best examples of two stories that start different but ends the same are Sexy and A Temporary Matter. Sexy focuses on a woman who is trying to create a connection with a man by having an affair. She builds up a fantasy world so that she can ignore the problems it will cause. Then she meets Rohin. Rohin is the child of a couple that is divorcing because of an affair, much like the one she and Dev are in. He causes her fantasy world to shatter and wakes her up to the fact that she never really had a connection to Dev in the first place. The affaire slowly starts crumbling apart, missing Saturdays to meet friends until they eventually just stop seeing each other. …show more content…
It starts with a couple that just lost their baby and is going out of their way to avoid each other. When they are forced to talk because of the electricity going out they seem to start reconnecting. They are sharing more and more with each other and it looks like their relationship might just make it. Yet, the final night of the story where his wife shares with him that she bought an apartment and is moving out. At that moment Shukumar realizes that whatever connection they had was gone. They were never going to make it and nothing they could have done would have changed that. Both stories had completely different plots and characters but both ended in the same