Interpreter Of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri A Temporary Matter

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In the story “A Temporary Matter” from the book Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri, examines how harboring a secret can tear a couple’s relationship apart to a million pieces. In the story, a young couple are experiencing nightly power outages and are forced to tell each other secrets to past the time. The readers can tell immediately that the couple doesn’t have a loving relationship anymore. Ever since the death of their son, both Shukumar and Shoba been like “two trains passing in the night”; she left for work before Shukumar woke up every morning and when she came home she poured all of her attention into her work files.