Personal Narrative-A Streetcar Named Desire

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“After a week, when I was no more annoyed with my destiny and had regained my weight and composure, I discovered one evening the same man with several gold chains around his thick black neck sitting in the warden’s room chewing tobacco, the warden asked me to go with him. I found no difference between Baz Khan and the salacious scoundrel sitting in the chair, the only difference being Baz Khan treated me like a commodity without a price since the fat man was prepared to put a price on me. I embraced my destiny”.
“This continued for the succeeding two years, for my every overnight spent out the warden would give me rupees two hundred, treated me better than other girls, no more were the beatings, no more were the rapes by her muscle men, except my lovers with diabolic eyes, peeping in my bra, would unhesitatingly barge in the room of warden, to take
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I asked for the time to consider his proposal and in the interim collected information about Yashwant Tamble. He had promised to come after two days. During this period, I genuinely gave thought to his proposal and ultimately made up my mind to go with him with a few conditions”.
“My decision primarily stemmed from the fact that I have nothing to lose, time made me a vagrant, forced into an erotic lecherous woman, my virginity long back desecrated by my debauch stepfather in connivance with my mother then, why I ought not to attempt my freedom. If prostitution is my destiny, why not I am the best, the most sensuous, applauded in the art of seduction and be the highest paid. Furthermore, if every night I have to die, then let the magician in me trick the different parts of my paramours and Yeshwant Tamble suited me the most”.
“After two days, he came and I secretly met him in the backyards of the orphanage and spoke candidly with my

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