Jhumpa Lahiri's Short Story 'A Temporary Matter'

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short stories, The New York Debut of the year Award and The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. A Temporary Matter is one of the first stories of compilation among the nine short stories. The title “Temporary Matter” is represents the unusual power failure for five days an hour from eight PM in Boston, it symbolically indicate the marriage life of the lives of Indian couple of the second generation immigrants in America. They are lived for three years in Boston. Shukumar is nearly thirty five years old and he has own job so, he leave his family burden to Shoba because he spent his more time for doing the doctoral dissertation under the title on “an agrarian revolts in India” (Interpreter of Maladies 2). Always, he stays in his house …show more content…

The story ends with the phrase; “they wept together for the things they now knew.” (IM 22) When Mr. Pirzada came to Dine, which is another one story of the collections of Jhumpa Lahiri. In which, she brilliantly construct the story about the nostalgic feeling agony of the immigrant people mainly through her character and which is the elegant story that revolves around the character of immigrant scholar. He came to America by the help of Pakistan government for doing research on the foliage in United Kingdom and also where he worked as a professor. This fully narrated by the ten years old girl Lilia who belongs to the second generation of immigrants lives with her parents in Boston. This story seems to be an autobiographical; it reminds Lahiri’s own life. Throughout the eyes of Lilia, the reader could understand the experiences of the life of Indians in the host country. They are separated from their own land, that many miles away from India. Even though, they could not separated from their own sentiment and tradition. Mr. Pirzada was a regular visitor of the narrator’s house. Always he worried himself about the safety of his twenty years old wife and seven daughters between the age of six and sixteen and each of their names started with the letter A. He had left them alone without any secure. This is the main cause for his sadness. In his native, there would be conducted cold war for

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