Dual Relation: A Critique of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Short Stories

Abstract

This paper examines Jhumpa Lahiri's Short Stories in duel relation as portrayed by her in her short stories – A Real Durwan, The Treatment of Bibi Haldar, The Third and Final continent, Unaccustomed Earth, Temporary Matter and Interpreter of Maladies. In her stories Lahiri provides details of Indian as well as American way of life and shows how the life partners come in conflict with two different cultures causing dual relationship. This portraiture of her characters clearly amplifies multi-cultural relationship among them. The dual relation remains intact to the last.