The novel The Girls from Overseas, deals with the five foreign women married to Indian men and their state of alienation in alien country. The novel puts the five protagonists in cross culture scenario.
‘It was impossible to escape from one’s background’ Louise is convinced of it. Five years in India, five years of being married to an Indian, and still she is herself, alien, separate, linked to the slenderest of filaments to her husband, Dinesh, who watched her dress with an absent minded expression.’ Louise one of the foreign women, who chooses to live in India find difficult to get on marital issues and lack of facilities in India. Unlike other foreign women she endeavors more to accustom to India.
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The news of Jason’s marriage taps them as a bolt. Sandy, wife of a rich jeweler is very sure of inferiority of Indian bride and thinks Jason’s friendship with them will continue as it is before.
“Michelle, wife of General Rajendra Verma seems most accustomed among all five women. She has two daughters and one school going boy, Jit. She is living much regulated life with her retired husband. Gertrud Das was even older than Michelle. She married when she was just past thirty, while the British rule was still some years from dying. ‘She was a prisoner, dependent on memories, as all prisoners are. She was on terms of mutual tolerance, but hardly friendship, with the others. Her whole life is based on an elaborate charade, the pretence that she alone existed, an explorer in a savage country.’
As in the novel The Daughter of Tiger, by Bharathi Mukharji the protagonist, Tara grew homesick, nostalgic and panic in ethnical differences of American society these foreign women though independent, cultured free from financial problems aloof with Indian society. Gertrude least goes with Indians and almost she hates India. The only reason she remains in India is she has none in her own country and she was not trained particularly to …show more content…
But she enjoyed being married to one of the richest man in the town. He was influential person with infinite bank account ‘which he allowed Sandy to dip into generously’. She thought of giving divorce to her husband and living separately though she is very concern about her mother-in –law (Dilip’s mother). All her plans gone vain when Dilip puts very strange conditions before her to grant her divorce as leaving India to her native. Finally she decided to live in India an invisible and tasteless as Dilip Singh’s
‘It was impossible to escape from one’s background’ Louise is convinced of it. Five years in India, five years of being married to an Indian, and still she is herself, alien, separate, linked to the slenderest of filaments to her husband, Dinesh, who watched her dress with an absent minded expression.’ Louise one of the foreign women, who chooses to live in India find difficult to get on marital issues and lack of facilities in India. Unlike other foreign women she endeavors more to accustom to India.
“Every week, the five women met for coffee …show more content…
The news of Jason’s marriage taps them as a bolt. Sandy, wife of a rich jeweler is very sure of inferiority of Indian bride and thinks Jason’s friendship with them will continue as it is before.
“Michelle, wife of General Rajendra Verma seems most accustomed among all five women. She has two daughters and one school going boy, Jit. She is living much regulated life with her retired husband. Gertrud Das was even older than Michelle. She married when she was just past thirty, while the British rule was still some years from dying. ‘She was a prisoner, dependent on memories, as all prisoners are. She was on terms of mutual tolerance, but hardly friendship, with the others. Her whole life is based on an elaborate charade, the pretence that she alone existed, an explorer in a savage country.’
As in the novel The Daughter of Tiger, by Bharathi Mukharji the protagonist, Tara grew homesick, nostalgic and panic in ethnical differences of American society these foreign women though independent, cultured free from financial problems aloof with Indian society. Gertrude least goes with Indians and almost she hates India. The only reason she remains in India is she has none in her own country and she was not trained particularly to …show more content…
But she enjoyed being married to one of the richest man in the town. He was influential person with infinite bank account ‘which he allowed Sandy to dip into generously’. She thought of giving divorce to her husband and living separately though she is very concern about her mother-in –law (Dilip’s mother). All her plans gone vain when Dilip puts very strange conditions before her to grant her divorce as leaving India to her native. Finally she decided to live in India an invisible and tasteless as Dilip Singh’s