This Blessed House

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The following couple has been selected from This Blessed House, the seventh story of prizewinning collection. The exhibit story highlights the role of effective communication in the married life of an Indian newlyweds couple Sanjeev and Twinkle. They met each other just four months ago in California, through their parents and after a brief long-distance courtship they decided to live together for eternity. The young couple moves into a new house shortly after being wedded. As they try around investigating and fixing up the house, Twinkle’s gleeful possession with the Christian iconolatry left by previous tenants irks Sanjeev. The issue starts from here the middle of the two, as Sanjeev wants to toss the relics away, but Twinkle collects …show more content…

It made him feel stupid, as if the world contained hidden wonders he could not anticipate, or see”. (Lahiri 142).

The root of the clash between the couple is the crashing of their two exact different personalities and their inabilities to comprehend each other especially Sanjeev. Sanjeev is precise and self-cognizant of nature same time Twinkle similarly as her name infers is free spirited and very much fastidious. Sanjeev is unabated to express his disappointment with Twinkle‘s actions and silently adjusts to the situation. Even though Twinkle shows no enthusiasm toward household, Sanjeev is incapable to state his opinion or just communicate with her on these tiny matters. Sanjeev thinks: “They didn’t bother her, these scattered unsettled matters. She seemed content with whatever cloths she found at the front of the closet. With whatever magazine was lying around, with whatever song was on the radio-content yet …show more content…

He doubted whether he love Twinkle or not likewise she is quietly opposite of the girl Sanjeev wants to get married. This perception is quite common upon Indian husbands in different diaspora, whose majority expects the same from their wives. ―Women are expected to be docile homemakers. But their girlish charm may not be a quality an Indian husband in the diaspora may admire or tolerate in wives (Jain 2315). Twinkle‘s spontaneous and girl personality is mainly mirrored in her carelessness in the household and cooking. Twinkle was so self-obsessed and did never pay attention to his preferences and this cemented a wall between them. Twinkle‘s lack of sense for putting everything in the order and being too chaotic for Sanjev‘s only highlight his disappointment with her.
“Now, in the second month of their marriage, certain things nettled him—the way she sometimes spat a little when she spoke, or left her undergarments after removing them at night at the foot of their bed rather than depositing them in the laundry hamper”. (Lahiri

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