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In the short story, The Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri signifies the importance of communication within relationships, families, and cultures. Also Lahiri signifies the dangers of romanticism. Lahiri proves this importance by showing the difficulties of the characters lives that are caused by lack of communication, also we are shown the romanticism caused by the non existing communication between the relationships in the story and the clashing of the two cultures within the story. Through symbolism and fanaticism, we are able to better understand these miss communications.
The Interpreter of Maladies is about a Indian American family, the Das’ who travels to India on a family vacation. Mr. Das hires a tour guide named Mr. Kapasi
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( who is also an interpreter at a doctors office) to drive them to visit the Sun Temple.
Throughout the story we see that all the characters have one in common. That similarity is their lack of communication between cultures, within their marriages, within their families, and between each other as a whole. Mr. Kapasi’s no longer knows how to communicate with his wife, Mrs. Das does not know how to communicate with her husband that her son Bobby is not her husbands son, and they fail to communicate with their children. Not figuring a healthy way to communicate theses things becomes the root of all of their problems.
When there is not an open line of communication within a relationship, that relationship can not and will not survive its blunders. Mr Kapasi’s relationship is the perfect example of how lack of communication can affect your relationship in a negative manner. Mr. Kapasi’s marriage collapsed after the death of their son and he no longer knows how
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to communicate with his wife and is stuck in an arranged marriage that no longer has a meaning to the either of them. He often keeps to himself, hardly speaks to his wife, and he spends his nights drinking tea, by himself. Because of his lack of communication to his wife and people in general, Mr. Kapasi begins to feel isolated. This leads him to fantasies about a relationship with Mrs. Das., because he also believes that she is in a bad marriage as well. Doing this enables him to really communicate with her and pay attention to how she is responding to him, because of this he miss the signs that she is really not that into him. Also, only seeing what he wants to see, he overlooks who she truly is, which is selfish, self centered, and an adulterer. Mr. Kapasi shows his lack of communication skills between the two cultures, is when he sees the Das’ for the first time. Mr. Kapasi says “The family looked Indian but dressed as foreigners did, the children in stiff, brightly colored clothing and caps with translucent visors. “ This shows the lack of communication between Indian Americans and Indians that are native to India. This leads him to believe that he will find something in common with the family just because they are in fact Indian. This assumption leads to confusion, awkwardness, and a bad communication line throughout the rest of the story. Knowing that Mr.
Kapasi is an interpreter for a doctor, Mrs. Das is fascinated by his job and she believes that he can help her with her marital problems. This leads to another miss communication. She decides to tell him about her affair and fails to realize that Mr. Kapasi is completely uncomfortable with this conversation. This shows the lack of understanding between the American Indian culture and the Indian culture in India. Mrs. Das also tells him how she is no longer in love with her husband, but she never tells her husband. This also it shows hows their communication skills are not as strong as they thought they were because once she tells him this, all of his fantasies of them being together and married, begin to drift away into
nothing. Throughout the story Mr. Das. completely romanticized his surrounding, and never sees what is right in front of him. At a moment in the story Mr. Das has Mr. kapasi pull the cab over so he can take a picture of a man on the side of the world. He looks at India as a tourist instead of connecting with this man and understanding that this man is beggar and needs help. The communication between the entire group is also very bad. Towards the end of the story Mr. Kapasi told the entire family that the monkeys were not dangerous as long as they were not fed. Bobby had been feeding the monkey and they ended up attacking him. No one communicated who was watching the children, or even made sure that the heard Mr kapasi. Mr Das even took a picture of it on an accident. The most ironic part of that entire situation was that Mrs. Das screamed for Mr. kapasi to save her son, not her husband. She still expected to fix her problems instead of her fixing them herself.
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