However when she has started isolating herself from socializing, Shukumar began getting adjusted to the environment created in their household. He has stopped looking forward for weekends. So they both have remained away from their close friends and relatives. It is not even like they find solace in each other's arms, they hardly converse with each other. They live under the same roof like familiar strangers. This clearly makes it hard for Shobha to cope with trauma.
One can witness the results of post traumatic condition encompassing all spheres of her life gradually. Her disordered life is another manifestation of trauma. From the day she got married to till September for almost three years she has a led a very disciplined life. She took care of all the household activities like paying bills on time, bringing necessary things and keeping their three bed room house neat, organized and beautiful. She even documented each recipe dinner in her notebook with a date. But now she has not concerned about any of these things. She sits with the pile of things without even moving them. This reminds a few lines of the poem Dreams by
Langston Hughes, where he describes the effect of fallen dreams or things.
An understanding of Shobha's changed lifestyle and fractured mind, her complete cut o from social life, her personal relationship with her husband and disorganized life style, suggest that she has lost hope and faith in her past life and on the verge of creating a new life.
Another issue that contributes to her decision of moving out is the haunting memories of that house which play a great role in the case of trauma.
For Shobha her bedroom is the place which haunted her the most with its beautiful moments and sweet memories. The pict...
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...the reason behind her plan, he acts irrationally. Though it turns out well by giving them the chance to grieve together for the terrible loss of their baby and starts life afresh.
The above analysis becomes crucial for its representation of the traumatic condition and its effect on the family. Since the stillbirth, Shobha's life is marked by silence and profound disorder and Shukumar's boredom and anticipation. Shukumar's negligence for almost six months of her condition makes her trauma even worse. If he would have taken initiation a way sooner to get her out of the world she created for herself by just talking with her instead of remaining indifferent about her growing silence, she would not have decided to move out of his house. So it is perceived that emotional support or any kind of support to a woman who has experienced a stillbirth is of paramount importance.
want to be touched. The last reason is she took a chance for her life to get her father out of jail.
...n gave up. Her energy had to be devoted towards the survival of her family she then “grew increasingly anxious and upset”(163).
Her emptiness toward her husband may be seen in the way she interacts with him. She
what is for her and how she wants to live. So in the end, she is where she
To start off, first, the narrator thinks that the house her and her husband John are renting for the next three months is haunted or it wouldn’t be as cheap as it is for being such a beautiful place. Another thing is that she unhappy in her marriage. Her husband doesn’t listen to her, tells her she’s wrong and laughs at her. She is feeling very unwell and all he says is she has temporary nervous depression and only tells her to stay in bed and do nothing. The way she describes things is very bleak, dark, depressing. She keeps going back to thoughts of the house being haunted and gets anxious. She becomes angry with John for no reason sometimes and thinks it’s from her ‘nervous condition’. Something the reader may not catch onto when she talks about how she doesn’t like her bedroom is how she took the nursery, so right away, we know she has a baby. She feels trapped with the barred windows and not being able to go anywhere, having to just lay down and look at the most revolting yellow wallpaper shes ever seen. Writing the story alone makes her extremely exhausted and she says that John doesn’t know the extent of her suffering. Eventually, it’s made known that she can’t even go near her own child and it makes her increasingly nervous. She has unwanted thoughts throughout the entire story of the terrifying ugly yellow
to. With all her heart, she longs for a true friend that she can tell her
makes each of them aware of the part they had played that lead to her
money. From this we get the idea that they are poor and always need a
to support and provide for her - her future is devoid of all hope. The
her and her business to become the way how she had wanted and to make sure that her
enable her to surmount the many obstacles she would face. She would endure the untimely death of both parents as a teenager and would be forced to raise her
to know what is going on at all times. She is strong willed and is
Diction is the precise choice of words and style of expression used by an author. The use of diction is observed multiple times in the short story A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri. In A Temporary Matter, married couple Shoba and Shukumar experience the loss of their newborn baby during childbirth. The fatality of their child results in their marriage to slowly deteriorate and eventually cease. The conflicts within their marriage are perceived to be the result of a communication barrier; however, Lahiri's use of diction reveals they are experiencing greater conflicts. Diction has the capability to deliver powerful messages to readers; such as the concept that Shoba and Shukumar’s marriage is in a state of war.
two jobs to support her family and is therefore not there to spend much time
take care of the household duties. She was also the one who caused the trouble because she was