Essays on Interpreter of Maladies
In literature, authors often use everyday scenarios to communicate ideas to the reader. Whether it is meant to teach the reader a lesson or help them understand difficult topics, every story has a purpose: the theme. Many authors, like Sandra Cisneros and Jhumpa Lahiri, share similar themes in their works. Two of their books in...
Jhumpa Lahiri “imagines an American world not just through American eyes but eyes that have seen other cultures and a mind that has understood other ways of thought” (Caesar, 2005). Through Lahiri’s background experiences she can provide a different point of view on the American culture and new metaphors of how one experiences the world...
In Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri, one of the best stories in the collection is “The Third and Final Continent.” Mrs. Croft is much of what makes the story so compelling, and much of the story is a vehicle for finding out more about her. In fact, I can’t say that she fits into...
