Communication in a Temporary Matter
In this story of Jhumpa Lahiri's story collection, Interpreter of maladies, Lahiri is stating that marriage is all about communication. In the case of Shukumar and Shoba the death of their child caused a major breakdown in communication, which later became a leading cause of the ending of their marriage.
Shukumar, the husband, is a true childlike man, he is the kind of guy who even though his wife Shoba is trying to recover from their child's death, can only think about "how long it had been since she looked into his eyes and smiled, or whispered his name on those rare occasions they still reached for each other's bodies before sleeping"(page 5) Instead of mourning with his broken wife over their terrible …show more content…
What we do know is that she's a neat, organized freak, who plans ahead, like way ahead. "She was the type to prepare for a surprise, good and bad. If she found a skirt or a purse she liked she bought two." (page 6) "When she used to do the shopping, the pantry was always stocked with extra bottles of olive and corn oil, depending on whether they were cooking Italian or Indian. There were countless boxes of pasta in all shapes and colors, zippered sacks of basmati rice, whole sides of lambs and goats from the Muslim butchers at Haymarket, chopped up and frozen in plastic bags"(page 6) she even used to buy extra toothbrushes for pop guests, "Shoba had bought them once when they were on sale, in the event that a visitor decided, at the last minute, to spend the night". (page …show more content…
Suddenly, all of that changed after she gave birth to her miscarried child, she stopped caring about her coat and sneakers, and instead of hanging the coat and placing the sneakers in the closet as usual, she throwed them around instead. (page 6) she also stopped caring about her appearance, she started to wear "navy blue poplin raincoat over grey sweatpants and white sneakers, looking, at thirty-three, like the type of women she'd once claimed she would never resemble."(page 1) yet she did a lot more than what her husband Shukumar did, at least she go to
In this story of Jhumpa Lahiri's story collection, Interpreter of maladies, Lahiri is stating that marriage is all about communication. In the case of Shukumar and Shoba the death of their child caused a major breakdown in communication, which later became a leading cause of the ending of their marriage.
Shukumar, the husband, is a true childlike man, he is the kind of guy who even though his wife Shoba is trying to recover from their child's death, can only think about "how long it had been since she looked into his eyes and smiled, or whispered his name on those rare occasions they still reached for each other's bodies before sleeping"(page 5) Instead of mourning with his broken wife over their terrible …show more content…
What we do know is that she's a neat, organized freak, who plans ahead, like way ahead. "She was the type to prepare for a surprise, good and bad. If she found a skirt or a purse she liked she bought two." (page 6) "When she used to do the shopping, the pantry was always stocked with extra bottles of olive and corn oil, depending on whether they were cooking Italian or Indian. There were countless boxes of pasta in all shapes and colors, zippered sacks of basmati rice, whole sides of lambs and goats from the Muslim butchers at Haymarket, chopped up and frozen in plastic bags"(page 6) she even used to buy extra toothbrushes for pop guests, "Shoba had bought them once when they were on sale, in the event that a visitor decided, at the last minute, to spend the night". (page …show more content…
Suddenly, all of that changed after she gave birth to her miscarried child, she stopped caring about her coat and sneakers, and instead of hanging the coat and placing the sneakers in the closet as usual, she throwed them around instead. (page 6) she also stopped caring about her appearance, she started to wear "navy blue poplin raincoat over grey sweatpants and white sneakers, looking, at thirty-three, like the type of women she'd once claimed she would never resemble."(page 1) yet she did a lot more than what her husband Shukumar did, at least she go to