The Exhibition of 'She' in 'Mrs Sen's by Jhumpa Lahiri: An Existential Study (original) (raw)

2023, Aadhar Publications, Amaravati

Mrs Sen is one of the striking stories in the collection of ‘Interpreter of Maladies’by prominent fiction writer Jhumpa Lahiri. The text is significant in the post-colonial and diaspora canon in literature. Eliot, an eleven-year-old boy, tells an even more detailed and provocative story in the background of Lahiri's convoluted narrative. This paper aims at evaluating the character of Mrs Sen through the lenses of Existentialism. Mrs Sen settling into the new environment was challenging, especially in the early stages of the migration. Women who immigrated to America after getting married discover that they are doubly alone in their new home contrary to the man. Woman doesn’t have the choice to stay in the home country while husband makes decision to relocate in another country. Mrs Sen remains alienated and isolated in the new home. She was constantly long for her cultural roots and never gave up Indian practices in a Western country. The dilemma of accepting new ways of life and leaving the past life created an existential crisis.

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