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“The Shroud” and Other Short Stories Questions and Answers
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"The Shroud" depicts a poor family of a low caste in India in the 1930s. On the one hand, the author depicts the protagonists, Ghisu and Madhav, as awful, lazy, and to blame for their predicament. There is no shortage of work in the village, yet...
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He basically bought alcohol and food. "Ghisu bought one bottle of liquor, and some sesame sweets."
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Eventually, they spend all of the donated money on alcohol and food rather than on a shroud for Budhiya.
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