Enduring Beauty Rhetorical Analysis

The first night of the power outage hints at the deteriorating relationship of Shukumar and Shoba, which results from the lack of communication. Shukumar creates a mental comparison his life, how it “weren’t like this,” stating the drastic difference between the lives that they had prior to the miscarriage, and after the death of their child. His tone has a lingering doubt, a feeling that he has had in the back of his mind, that he has been ignoring, as he “struggles” to talk to Shoba with interest and admiration. His lack of communication during this meal has precedence, when he eventually “gave up trying to amuse her,” as if the bemusement of Shoba would save their dying marriage. While Shukumar gives up his attempts, he accepts their disjointed