The misery of people living in a condition of poverty and their struggle to maintain the basic needs of life is shown in the novel. The second part of novel Tell Me A Story is totally different in comparison with the first part. The second half deals with another type of world which is alien to Rani. The second part begins when Rani leaves for Delhi after her father’s death. Rani’s madam Sadhna is a novelist. She has acquired fame after her first …show more content…
In the final part of her course, she has to do some project work in a company, and every day she reads books on her way to Alpha Electronics. Gradually she realises that there would be nothing in her life after the completion of the course except writing. So she immerses herself in reading and writing. She lives in rented rooms for four years in different cities and completes her first novel. She becomes famous and recognized as a new ‘literary find’ of India. She is plunged in to the world of writers, artists and critics of all kinds and everyone has an opinion. She says: “In India, where only a handful of people could speak and write in English, a bunch of people with a facility of language had appropriated literature; ruthlessly run the business along with their Western counterparts was on the make with an eye on the main chance”. (TMAS P.141) Later on Sadhna realises that she has lost the ability to write. Her little god of literature has been snatched away and she slides deeper and deeper into a dark pit of gloom where words make no sense to her. Sadhna becomes a stalled novelist and now she is recognized as a one book wonder. In her Delhi based house Sadhna is living with Vina before the arrival of Rani. Sadhna woke up at the sound of the newspaper. When Vina comes to know that Sadhna memsaab does not have husband, then Vina remarked:
“Life without men is difficult. But life with men is also difficult. That is what my aunt from Patna always says.”(TMAS