R.K.Narayan’s ‘Talkative Man’-A Mini Novel of Many Characters: A Study A. Phaniraja Kumar
Abstract:
Talkative Man is a short novel based on a man’s life in his struggle to make his reputation as a renowned journalist(TM) in the well-known modern town of Malgudi. It also describes the charisma of born flirt Dr. Rann and his Home Guard wife, Sarasa. In this novel R.K.Narayan focuses on characters rather than incidents. It is an entertaining read with humorous moments juxtaposed against observations and failings of the human heart.
Introduction:
R. K. Narayan, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist, is now regarded as one of the greatest of Indian writers in English who have succeeded in sensitively portraying the …show more content…
Rann straight away comes into contact with TM by the way of his waiting at town hall library, a common place which had been regularly visited by Talkative Man. He himself enquired about the whereabouts of TM. He had troubled the Station Master, by staying in the waiting room for three weeks. After vacating the waiting him, he vexed Tm to find a room for him in Malgudi. As we knew that TM was a well-wisher of all. So TM finally permitted Dr. Rann to stay at his home until he would get a room. Dr. Rann had some charm about him and endears him not only to TM but also women. He was a womaniser. His use of special after-shave lotion and hair-cream made him “irresistible to women”. He was a past master in the art of winning and breaking the women’s hearts. This was how Sarasa, his wife in her girlhood had fallen a victim to his charming personality and intellectual brilliance. The same kind of duplicity and deception by Dr. Rann’s in the wooing of Girija, the old librarian’s daughter as well as her …show more content…
He was led into a state of double deprivation by his poverty and lack of enlightenment. Having no other means of recreation, he went on producing “a lot of children” under his little roof, and thus adding the want and misery of his family. It was ironical that despite thirty years of devoted government service, he felt difficulty to make his both ends meet, partly owing to a big family and partly to the meagre salary and the rising prices. Finding himself burdened with a big family, the station master started accepting hush money and allowed the public property to be unlawfully used by passengers like Dr. Rann and commandant Sarasa by turns. With the intervention of TM, Dr. Rann vacated the waiting room and saved the station master from public criticism. To diminutive station master represents a truly average Indian. He was ‘one of the thousands’ of Indians who led a poor but contended
Abstract:
Talkative Man is a short novel based on a man’s life in his struggle to make his reputation as a renowned journalist(TM) in the well-known modern town of Malgudi. It also describes the charisma of born flirt Dr. Rann and his Home Guard wife, Sarasa. In this novel R.K.Narayan focuses on characters rather than incidents. It is an entertaining read with humorous moments juxtaposed against observations and failings of the human heart.
Introduction:
R. K. Narayan, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist, is now regarded as one of the greatest of Indian writers in English who have succeeded in sensitively portraying the …show more content…
Rann straight away comes into contact with TM by the way of his waiting at town hall library, a common place which had been regularly visited by Talkative Man. He himself enquired about the whereabouts of TM. He had troubled the Station Master, by staying in the waiting room for three weeks. After vacating the waiting him, he vexed Tm to find a room for him in Malgudi. As we knew that TM was a well-wisher of all. So TM finally permitted Dr. Rann to stay at his home until he would get a room. Dr. Rann had some charm about him and endears him not only to TM but also women. He was a womaniser. His use of special after-shave lotion and hair-cream made him “irresistible to women”. He was a past master in the art of winning and breaking the women’s hearts. This was how Sarasa, his wife in her girlhood had fallen a victim to his charming personality and intellectual brilliance. The same kind of duplicity and deception by Dr. Rann’s in the wooing of Girija, the old librarian’s daughter as well as her …show more content…
He was led into a state of double deprivation by his poverty and lack of enlightenment. Having no other means of recreation, he went on producing “a lot of children” under his little roof, and thus adding the want and misery of his family. It was ironical that despite thirty years of devoted government service, he felt difficulty to make his both ends meet, partly owing to a big family and partly to the meagre salary and the rising prices. Finding himself burdened with a big family, the station master started accepting hush money and allowed the public property to be unlawfully used by passengers like Dr. Rann and commandant Sarasa by turns. With the intervention of TM, Dr. Rann vacated the waiting room and saved the station master from public criticism. To diminutive station master represents a truly average Indian. He was ‘one of the thousands’ of Indians who led a poor but contended