Give Me My Food Analysis

To my surprise, I thoroughly enjoyed the story. I was taken back when I read that
Dukhiram murdered his wife Radha over the lack of dinner when he arrived home. It was interesting to me to analyze the dynamic between the wives and their husbands as well as the brother’s relationship. I didn’t think the story was going where it was going, and never could expect what was to happen next. I was intrigued the whole time, while being appalled at the way individuals were treated or tossed to the side. It’s astonishing that Radha was murdered in the first place for simply not making dinner for her husband. I was slightly confused when Dakhiram’s brother Chidam was deciding how to handle the situation, and whether or not to tell the truth. When he
I’m new to reading outside of my frame of reference, so I am still getting used to it. It wasn’t until Dukhiram promptly demanded, “Give me my food” that I had to take a second to remind myself what I was reading, and to begin analyzing why this happened. I was shocked at his roughness with his wife, especially under the circumstances that took place as he arrived home. Both wives were distraught, which seams to be a common occurrence based off their interactions, and even still he felt as though it was appropriate to be rude to his wife. As the story developed, and Chidam acknowledged the fact that his wife, Chandara, is expendable, but his brother is irreplaceable, and that he would even lie, and purposely put his wife in harms way to protect his brother who murdered Radha. When the author points out the age of the characters, as well as the way they interact with one another, it reiterates the idea of a young, and potentially arranged marriage. It leaves room for the idea that maybe the marriage wasn’t one out of love. These particular moments within the story I had to remind myself to remain open to other cultures, and other time periods to be able to understand the events. Arranged marriages are very normal in other cultures, in particular in India, within the past and even still today. Having an arranged