Jhumpa Lahiri

sighing and worrying about finding the time to read it. Eight stacks of hardback and flimsy books were laid on a brown table on the left side of the room. I got up and slowly walked over to the table. I picked up The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. I flipped through it, and it didn’t seem interesting, so I put it back on the…

So he gets confused whenever people talk about India. “Subhash didn’t know how to describe India’s fractious politics, its complicated society, to an American” (41). After one year Richard moves to Chicago and he is surrounded by sadness again. Before leaving Subhash learns driving from Richard. So the only activity he does after him is sitting in the car and listening to pop American songs and enjoying them. He still tries to concentrate on his study. The places which initially compel him to…

American’s disbeliefs there are other styles of parenting that differ greatly from the American standard. These differences are seen at the household level but often engulf entire nations into separate cultures distinctive from our own. Junot Díaz and Jhumpa Lahiri provide an alternative lens into the lives of those living as Americans in a culturally different home. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Unaccustomed Earth present the parenting styles of Dominican and Indian families and the…

In both “Hell-Heaven” by Jhumpa Lahiri and “The Sun, The Moon, The Stars” the protagonists both struggle in discovering their true identity. For both. Their lives seem hopeless and bleak with little chance of improving. In Hell-Heaven, the narrator’s mother represents a lonely homemaker who has little will to survive. On the other hand, in The Sun, The Moon, The Stars, the narrator strives to discover himself through the on-and-off relationship with his girlfriend Magda. Both protagonists…

of a physical journey over long distances. However, dating back to the post renaissance era, the concept of a journey can be regarded as a nonphysical one. This concept of a nonphysical journey is seen through the stories of “The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri and “Hedda Gabler” by Henrik Ibsen. The journeys of the two protagonists, Gogol Ganguli and Hedda Gabler are comparable of one another whereas both individuals experience his or her own personal journey and that as a result of his or her…

In a fairly short duration Bharati Mukherjee has received a respectable attention from the critics around the world. She is described as a ‘voice’ of expatriate- immigrant sensibility. She has stayed in different places, and lived through various cultures. In her journey as a writer her creative sensibility has undergone many changes, a continuous quest from ‘expatriation to immigration’. As a writer her concern can be seen in the lives of South- Asian immigrants in the USA and Canada and the…