Mall as heaven
When Maydevi visits a mall for the first time in London with her son and daughter-in-law for the first time, she is stunned by its beauty as she hadn’t seen something like it ever. She looks at a lacy bra and is marveled at the beauty of it, not realizing that its only a bra. She finds it gleaming and sparkling like heaven should be.
“Tomorrow I will buy a kite,’ he said and stepped out of the river as it surged ahead, taking his past along.
R.C. thinks of buying a kite to reminisce his childhood as he bathes in the river. The writer is comparing the flow of water to a cleansing experience, like a force surging to future, and taking his issues and conflicts of his past which made him a tough person along with it.
The lame and blind bride
Neelima is married while she is still a school girl and she is happy for it as she won’t have to study, but she realizes that as a married woman she is expected to take certain responsibilities and to behave in a manner appropriate of a married woman. So, she had to wear a sari and cover her face with its veil. As she wasn’t used to covering her face with a sari, she ends up stumbling on the path which leads everyone to pronounce that she was lame and blind.
….how will I get rid of this mountain?
Gajanan is so insecure by his wife’s height that he keeps comparing her with tall things, like giraffe, mountain or a palm tree to depict her height.
Black as a coal
Mini is married when she is very young and has to go through a number of humiliating sentences made about her complexion, primarily that she was as black as a coal.
