The Lowland Sparknotes

In Jhumpa lahiri’s novel The Lowland, one can easily find the depiction of formation with the evolution of characters’ individuality, which keeps on changing from time to time. It too tries to inhabit a sort of fluidity in the newly established cultural patterns they move to which are on the other hand tries to redraw on the canvas of previous culture they inherit. The novel The Lowland of Jhumpa Lahiri deals with the expatriate Bengali family that move on to the Rhode Island or the West to find a new sense of identity, a sense of belonging, to carve out a new niche for themselves and to cherish their dreams. The main focus that the author keeps on is that of the second generation immigrants, Bengalis that are raised in the United States in

Hybridity of fate and chance and also reading between the lines. On one side Jhumpa lahiri presents the duality of the hybridized form in the major characters of her novel but on the other hand by way of minor characters she has tried to portray the subaltern, who tends to be weaker just because of the confusion the dilemma that exists in their identity. At times they stand to fight for their existence achieving their goals in life. One becomes weaker the subaltern not because they tend to but because they are made to. In her novel The Lowland Gauri and Bela tend to be the victims of the postcolonial impact where they are unable to find their true identity. Gauri is a daughter, a wife and a mother too but when required she is unable to provide justice with her duties. The dualities that bore a space in the plot of the novel is on psychological and the social level; fate and chance. Though Jhumpa lahiri has been living away from Bengal for quite a longest part of her life, in her fiction The Namesake and The Lowland it is the same yearning that she is trying to preserve. After reading the novels of Jhumpa Lahiri one can easily make out a revelation that though she has been brought up and raised in Rhode Islands, U.S.A and her parents being of the Bengali origin did celebrate the wedding of their daughter in the ritualistic way of Bengal traditions trying to maintain the essence of the culture. Though multicultural in nature and hybrid in character the intellect of the author as well as the reader is bound in such a way that the incidents portrayed in the novel clarify aptly what they might have undergone in their life. She continues to write about the continents and the countries that she is associated with, by