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Taken by the prince by christina dodd5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Das refers to his wife by her first name, Mina, when speaking to his daughter Tina. Kapasi watches the Dases closely, noting behaviors and qualities that seem odd to him-such as the fact that Mr. Kapasi’s observations to color their perspective. The reader gets no insight into any member of the Das family’s interior thoughts, and as such has only Mr. “Interpreter of Maladies” is told in the third person, sticking very closely to the point of view of Mr. Beyond suggesting the inability to ever truly know another person, the story also closely links knowledge with a sense of loss: the closer characters become-the more they know each other-the more alone they feel. Kapasi, a stranger to the Das family, Lahiri is able to highlight the ways in which, in the absence of genuine knowledge, people project their own beliefs and desires onto others. By telling the story largely from the perspective of Mr. Das and their three children to visit a temple, however, Lahiri’s tale becomes one of poignant estrangement. On the surface, Jumpha Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” is a simple story about a family on vacation in India. ![]()
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