The short story‚ "A Temporary Matter” invokes both positive and negative feelings in a short amount of time with the quote‚ “She would look around the walls of the room‚ which they had decorated together last summer with a border of marching ducks and rabbits playing trumpets and drums. By the end of August there was a cherry crib under the window‚ a white changing table with mint-green knobs‚ and a rocking chair with checkered cushions.Shukumar had disassembled it all before bringing Shova back
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Essay on “A Temporary Matter” In the story‚ “A Temporary Matter”‚ Shoba‚ the wife‚ tells her husband‚ Shukumar‚ that she is going to move out. The loss of their baby is a key factor in this decision but it is not the only factor. One cause of the relationship ending the way it did was the fact that Shukumar was never around. Shoba and Shukumar could never really spend time together because he was always working. While this did not in any way cause the death of the baby‚ his not being there during
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ENGL: 1800 American Ethnic Literatures A Temporary Matter “The notice informed then that it was a temporary matter” (1). Lahiri’s title of choice for this short story implores both literal and figurative interpretation. While the words appear direct in meaning‚ they could instead be a metaphoric figure of speech‚ or rather a deliberate exaggeration to convey something other than the literal meaning. Furthermore‚ the use of a notice to inform someone of something can often be used as part
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A Temporary Matter Husband and wife Shukumar and Shoba are notified that their electricity will be turned off at 8:00PM for five evenings in a row in order to fix a power line. Shoba tells her husband this news. He looks at her‚ noticing that her makeup has run from her time at the gym. He reminisces about how she would look in the morning after a party in happier times. Shoba insists that the electric company should work on the lines during the day. Shukumar takes slight offense at this idea; since
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Death and change are a part of life that cannot be escaped; everyone at some point in his or her life will have to work through the grief of losing a loved one. Grief is the process that we go through to let go of old habits and starts a new way of life. We all need to examine the way we deal with these changes in our lives. When we understand our reactions to changes that happen in our lives we will be able to accept these changes and the grieving process will be easier. In the book ‘Interpreter
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“A Temporary Matter” By Jhumpa Lahiri 1. The story is about the marriage of the 2 main characters‚ Shukumar and his wife‚ Shoba. The story begins when Shoba‚ returning home from the gym‚ finds a notice from the electric company letting the people of their street know that nightly there will be an hour long outage while they are repairing some lines that had been downed during their last snowstorm. Shukumar is comparing the differences in his head from his wife the way she was when they had
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In the first story‚ A Temporary Matter‚ it is Shukumar’s guilt that divide the couple rather than their inability to communicate. During the day‚ he decides to work on his novel and eat in the room that was meant to be the babies “because it [is] a place Shoba [avoids]‚” (8). This contrasts Shoba’s decision to “[take] her plate to the living room‚” which is an area accessible to both of them‚ showing that she is at least making an effort while Shukumar cowers in another room (8). This solitude stems
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The story A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri is about a couple dealing with the stillbirth of their child. In the six months since‚ the couple‚ Shoba and Shukamar‚ have grown distant from each other. When the power is scheduled to go out during dinner every night due to maintenance‚ they begin to play a game where they reveal secrets to each other in the dark. The game allows for the couple to learn more about each other and grow closer‚ however all is fleeting when Shoba reveals that she is leaving
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relationship to weaken even further. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories‚ Interpreter of Maladies‚ the idea that children can weaken a relationship appears in the stories “Interpreter of Maladies”‚ “Sexy”‚ and “A Temporary Matter”.
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Jhumpa Lahiri’s remorseful short story “A Temporary Matter” demonstrates a loss of faith as grief exposes differences. In modern Boston‚ a young couple has begun to isolate themselves from each other and lose interest in their well-being. It has been six months after the stillbirth of Shoba and Shukumar’s first child. Shukumar stays at home all day and puts off his dissertation while Shoba‚ who used to be a busy body around their home‚ now stays away from the house as much as possible. The electricity
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