![]() ![]() ![]() Sen’s’ her isolation from society and confinement to the home and domestic sphere is shown alongside the enforced self reliance of the American single mother and the solitary little figure of Eliot, letting himself into his beach hut, alone with the ‘gray waves receding from the shore’. Sometimes a distancing is due to other, more general factors, for example the loss experienced by the young couple in ‘A Temporary Matter’. Sometimes loneliness within marriage is linked to cultural differences, typically where the man is working in the US and after an arranged marriage brings his bride from India, to remain at home, far from family with no place in American society. Three of the stories in this collection are set in India and the other six in the United States though the latter deal with the subject of cultural difference and integration, all of them depict loneliness and isolation, both within and outside of marriage. ![]()
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