![]() ![]() “From time to time he drew out the picture and looked at it. First appearing in the form of an image in the hands of Subhash, who gazes at the black and white photograph, Gauri, is emblematic of the women of 1960’s India, educated and independent, but to Subhash she comes to represent the milestone that Udayan has reached before him. ![]() The novel is a stark portrayal of choices, taking the readers through the Naxalite Revolution in Calcutta and an immigration that is conducted to fill vacuum in the lives of protagonists. Many readers identify Lahiri’s text as a story that revolves more around the different ideologies and different life paths carried by two brothers Subhash and Udayan. In this essay, the foremost aim would be to analyze and look within the pages of this text and put forth arguments proving that the novel is indeed a representation of a feminist text through the principal character of Gauri and identify the grey areas that her character occupies. The 2013 novel written by Jhumpa Lahiri explores various streams and ideas of female independence within itself. ![]()
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