Interpreter Of Maladies

The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri is a short tale found among a collection of stories entitled Interpreter of Maladies. The narration is generally about how Indians are living far from their country, in this case, the United States try to reconnect with their countries of origin through culture and religion. The story revolves a family that takes a trip to India. They are a family of five, and the parents are working class Americans. The story revolves around the visit the family had in India. They were picked by a taxi driver called Mr. Kapasi. He was bewildered by the family’s lack of connections with their culture. The manner in which the young parents went about engaging with their two sons and daughter confused him the more.
The main character Jing-Mei narrates how from a very young age she was in denial of her ethnic origin. From her time in school in San Francisco, she recounts how she denied being Chinese and even the convincing done by her fellow Chinese schoolmates did not yield much. At age 36 she decides to take a journey back to her native home China. Her journey to China was a result of her dying mothers wishes to find her twin siblings who were abandoned. She arrives and settles in Guangzhou. Her perception of China is immediately changed. Before she came, she thought China to be a dirty and filthy country. The fact that China is run by a communist regime did not help matters. What she saw in China was not what she was expecting. She is bemused by the development going on in Guangzhou. When she checks into a hotel, she almost does not accept it is the one they had booked. She feels at home in the environment and likens it to that in San
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