Jhumpa Lahiri is a widely acclaimed Diaspora writer who has written many short stories and novels about Indian Diaspora. The basic themes of her writings are immigrant experiences, first and second generation gap, alienation, cultural conflicts etc. Primarily considered to be a diaspora writer her works have been analysed through various diasporic theories and a lot of studies have been done on her works having such themes till now. But being a female herself she has also maintained her concerns over the female issues that exist in the society since long and often go unnoticed. A subtle analysis of her works brings us to the fact that she has not only written about diasporic …show more content…
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the title story from her debut short story collection Interpreter of Maladies (1999) from a feminist angle and to explore the subtle nuances of female …show more content…
in a woman’s life. Jhumpa Lahiri has been a writer like this who has written not only about the social problems which women generally face but also about the psychology of women, about the inner goings of their mind which they don’t disclose to anyone and like a fatal wound that succumbs them slowly. Interpreter of Maladies is one of her story which on the surface level is a simple story of a tourist guide who is on duty to guide a couple of Indian origin settled in New Jersey, USA to the Sun Temple, Konarak, but on a deeper level the story delineates the psychological conflict and condition of the female characters of the story. The subtle reading of the story leads to a very important issue that is the inner suffering of the two and the only women characters in the story. The first is Mrs. Das who is the female protagonist of the story and the second is Mrs Kapasi, the wife of Mr. Kapasi (tourist guide) with a minor description in the