Lahiri's subtle, bittersweet ending is characteristic of the collection as a whole. I was hoping you could help me feel better say the right thing. I'm tired of feeling so terrible all the time.
"I told you because of your talents," she informs him after divulging a startling secret. Das and then becomes her unwilling confidant when she reads too much into his profession. Das-first-generation Americans of Indian descent-and their children.
Kapasi has problems enough of his own in addition to his regular job working as an interpreter for a doctor who does not speak his patients' language, he also drives tourists to local sites of interest. Or Miranda in "Sexy," who is involved in a hopeless affair with a married man.
Take, for example, Shoba and Shukumar, the young couple in "A Temporary Matter" whose marriage is crumbling in the wake of a stillborn child. Kapasi, the protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiri's title story, would certainly have his work cut out for him if he were forced to interpret the maladies of all the characters in this eloquent debut collection.
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