The Importance Of Truth In R. K. Narayan's Like The Sun

“Like the Sun” by R. K. Narayan, is about a man named Sekhar who decides to spend one day speaking nothing but the truth. It is very clear at the beginning of the short story that this man thinks deeply and often. He comes to the conclusion that every human relationship is based on the art of walking on eggshells around the complete truth. The author of the story thought so intensely about the truth that he capitalized the t in the beginning of the word when it was stated throughout the story. Reading this short story, I fell in love with the concepts intertwined within the minimal pages. I still have one remaining question that I have answered several different times, with no satisfaction. Why was the truth so important to Sekhar? He clearly

He choked down his wife's food day after day to please her, and the day he picked to tell the truth he upset her. He tip toed around the truth for many, and never got anywhere with it. He states, “He saw her face wince and thought to himself, Couldn’t be helped. Truth is like the sun.”(1). He clearly felt bad, but he had been eating her awful food for years, and for years to come. He saw the opportunity to not only analyze the reactions to improve his tiptoeing in the future, but free himself for a day of the burden of lying to the people he cared most about. He repetes one main point throughout the story:“The Truth is like the sun.” He comapres the way people cannot look at the sun without squinting to the way people cannot tell the truth without a few falsities. The truth is clearly important to this man, he risked his job, his marriage, and his reputation by being frank. Why would a person do that, just for the sake of telling the truth? You might have your own answers as I had mine; but, as Sekhar said, “He told no one of his experiment. It was a quiet resolve, a secret pact between him and