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A Temporary Matter

A Temporary Matter

Introduction

An unconventional story about a husband and wife who tell secrets to each other during nightly blackouts.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Born in London, the daughter of Bengali immigrants, her family moved to the United States when she was three

The Author

Autobiographical fiction

2000 Pulitzer Prize

Modern day Boston

Suburban home of a married couple

The Setting

Series of conversations

the First Night of

Confession

The Dinner Date

Shukumar feels all the differences in Shobha after the death of the baby.

After months of silence Shibha and Shukumar have there meal together and the game of confessions begin.

A little background about Shukumar's and Shoba's background from India is described.

The night of Light out has began and both are seated for the dinner together after a long while.

Shoba gives the idea of confessing to each other and this goes on for two till now

Summary

They continued to play this game and somehow it got converted into a place to confess their guilt.

They told each other their secrets.

Shoba tells Shukumar she had been looking for a new apartment all this while, planning a life without him.

Shukumar breaks the mystery of the gender of their unborn child, how he looked like Shoba and the creamation process.

Trail Of Secrets

The final confessions

Limits Of Planning

Identity

Deception

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Immigrants

Cultural identity crisis

Planning in this text meant organizing and controlling every aspect of life.

Lies they told each other for each other.

Lies that mattered in

a relationship.

Now, the light out the

reason they thought to finally tell each other truth before parting ways

Lost their identity as a couple

Facing stillbirth of her child broke the very myth of planning she had.

Evolution of identities

Struggled to regain control over her life.

Major

Themes

The systematic care and affection with which she had created a home for the two of them, cooking chutneys on Sundays, stirring boiling pots of tomatoes and dating the recipes, has now dried within her.

Lahiri privileges Shukumar's point of view throughout the story.

Each item that Shukumar touches triggers a memory of happier time of couple's life

Tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities.

Shoba used to leave for work early each mornings, return late, and often bring home extra work to occupy her evenings and weekends.

Shukumar would stay home all day, pretend to work and avoid Shoba and eventually attempts to escape.

Relationship

Escapism

Relationship

Flashbacks

Lack of Emotions

Lack Of Intimacy

The adaptation was unable to account for the flashbacks that took place in the story and played a major role in defining the relationship of Shoba and Shukumar

The adaptation couldn't capture the true essence of reconciliation and emotional catharsis of Shobha and Shukumar.

Adaptation:

The characters portraying the role of Shukumar and Shobha were not able express the emotions up to the mark. For example;

in the ending when Shukumar tells Shobha that he held there baby and they both started crying was not apt shown.

Story:

Story helps us to feel the pain and series of emotions that Shukumar and Shobha shares.

The adaptation was unable to account for the flashbacks that took place in the story and played a major role in defining the relationship of Shoba and Shukumar

Adaptation

Adaptation:

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Adaptation:

Story:

Ending

About the "baby"

Conclusion

Citations

www.ijnrd.org › papers › IJNRD1712010

Resources

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/eed0/45f215a0aadc93863663dffecbd6cf348812.pdf

https://medium.com/@aeb67406/the-longevity-of-a-temporary-matter-by-jhumpa-lahiri-9de17fed64b4

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