Jhumpa lahiri sexy [essay example]
Posted by admin on December 8th, 2009. Dev initiates the relationship, noticing Miranda in the mall and waiting for her until he gets what he wants. Throughout the relationship, Dev plays the active role, taking Miranda to movies, restaurants, and the Mapparium. The male character also dominates the story literally. Dev and Miranda spend a lot of time at the Mapparium, but Dev is speaking most of the time: “Dev pointed to India. He explained that many of the countries…no longer existed in the same way.” This is evident from the fact that he being an Indian lived an American way of life by keeping a mistress. He no longer respected the purity of the relationship with his wife as advised by the Indian culture. In addition to that he treated the relationship with Miranda as fun and was not faithful to her too. This represents the attitude of lots of people in this ‘global village’ where love means pleasure and sinful lust alone. In this globalization era beauty is treated as something that is purely external or lustful/sexy. “As Dev spoke, his voice bounced wildly off the glass… Dev said that it was due to the acoustics”. When Miranda tries to share the conversation, Dev ,without any seriousness waves her questions off as “nothing you’ll ever need to worry about” and patronizingly “taps her playfully on the head, like an overly curious child”. As Miranda’s romance with Dev gives priority to the man’s needs, it leaves her, as a female, verbally unvoiced. Not only does romance silence a lady, her need for “true love” above all other material possessions harms her particularly because of the women’s engendered need for emotional security.
