Ernest Hemingway's The Inheritance Of Loss

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countless requests from the neighbor’s asking for his help in sending their own relatives to the US, and for his help once they arrive, but Biju can barely take care of himself and continually avoids these requests. Biju is miserable in the US, as he struggles to navigate American racism, and also to cope with his own racism towards the other immigrants who work in the kitchens with him. He suffers the misinterpretations and abuse of his American employers, one of whom even buys him soap and deodorant to cover up his unpleasant “smell”. Biju finally decides that he cannot work in a restaurant that cooks beef, and finds a job in a Hindu-run Indian restaurant; this job is quite pleasant, aside from the fact that he earns low salaries and has to sleep in the kitchen. Here, though, he falls in the kitchen and hurts his leg and his employer will not pay …show more content…

This also deals about how the identity conflicts make them take important choices in their life. Chapter-3 discusses the human deprivation in the novel the Inheritance of Loss. Each and every character in the novel feels deprived in different position and situations. The strained economic status, relationship, the liberation of Gorkhaland and the difficulties faced by the illegal immigrants are discussed. The last chapter places of interest the journey of like of all characters. The sufferings experienced by the individual bring host land to shift their life situations once again in their home country the respect to humanity distress are more in their country in spite of the right to life they were offered in a new land. The title of the dissertation finally suggests that it is better to live in India because the person who wants to live a comfortable life in an alien land will be ill-treated. Everyone loses their identity in the immigrant countries. There is a kind of respect and kindness can be felt only in their own