Shaila Bhave's Management Of Grief

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In the short story, Management of Grief every character has a different way of coping with their emotions. The one common trait the characters share is they are in denial of their situation. In the beginning, none of the characters can deal with the reality of what they are going through. A tragedy of a plane crash with close loved one is devastating and a difficult hardship to accept. Every single person has gone through some type of hardship in their life. Understanding that each person is different with accepting and moving on is something we as humans need to fully understand. The protagonist, Shaila Bhave is the narrator of the story. Shaila’s husband and two sons have been the killed in the crash of Air India Flight 182. She uses many

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