Love has no boundaries Jhumpa Lahiri’s book, Interpreter of Maladies, demonstrates that the short stories, “A Temporary Matter,” “Sexy,” “This Blessed House,” “The Treatment of Bibi Halder,” and “The Third and Final Continent,” show an underlying theme that when love exhibits a sign of dysfunction, love relationships quickly crumble. Ultimately, the characters in love relationships could not communicate with one another which led to their relationships almost falling apart. However, once communication is under way, their love has no boundaries for each other. In the short story, “A Temporary Matter,” Shukumar believes that Shoba’ miscarriage and lack of communication had resulted in their love falling apart. After Shoba’s miscarriage, he
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The neighbors tried everything they can to communicate with Bibi Halder and to cure her mysterious sickness, and efforts had already been made to attempt to cure her, such as efforts to pray for her, to throw holy water on her, and to steam her face with herbal infusions” (Lahiri158). And yet, every method they tried did not work; during this process, neighbors could not understand Bibi Halder’s condition, nor did they attempt to let Bibi Halder communicate with them because they assumed that whatever she said were babbles or nonsense. For instance, she “unloaded her countless privations upon [them], until it became unendurably apparent [to the neighborhood] that Bibi wanted a man” (Lahiri 160). This was a misunderstanding on the neighborhood’s part; this lack of communication between Bibi Halder and the neighborhood led to neighbors thinking that she needed a man. They assumed that once having that man, her disease would be cured. The neighborhood admitted that “none of [them] qere capable of understanding such desolation. And yet, the neighbors communicate with her with acts of kindness and love. However, the community does not realize that Bibi Halder had been raped by Halder and that Halder’s decision to leave the house ultimately freed Bibi Halder from his sexual abuse and cured her mysterious disease. In a way, though there was clearly a lack of communication between Bibi Halder and the neighbors, the neighbor’s care and kindness for Bibi Halder ultimately helped free Bibi from Halder. This communication of their feelings were enough to hurt Halder’s business and send him packing. In one scene, the neighborhood had been indignant when Bibi had been repeatedly treated inhumanely, such as leaving her on the roof or not checking on her when she had
The neighbors tried everything they can to communicate with Bibi Halder and to cure her mysterious sickness, and efforts had already been made to attempt to cure her, such as efforts to pray for her, to throw holy water on her, and to steam her face with herbal infusions” (Lahiri158). And yet, every method they tried did not work; during this process, neighbors could not understand Bibi Halder’s condition, nor did they attempt to let Bibi Halder communicate with them because they assumed that whatever she said were babbles or nonsense. For instance, she “unloaded her countless privations upon [them], until it became unendurably apparent [to the neighborhood] that Bibi wanted a man” (Lahiri 160). This was a misunderstanding on the neighborhood’s part; this lack of communication between Bibi Halder and the neighborhood led to neighbors thinking that she needed a man. They assumed that once having that man, her disease would be cured. The neighborhood admitted that “none of [them] qere capable of understanding such desolation. And yet, the neighbors communicate with her with acts of kindness and love. However, the community does not realize that Bibi Halder had been raped by Halder and that Halder’s decision to leave the house ultimately freed Bibi Halder from his sexual abuse and cured her mysterious disease. In a way, though there was clearly a lack of communication between Bibi Halder and the neighbors, the neighbor’s care and kindness for Bibi Halder ultimately helped free Bibi from Halder. This communication of their feelings were enough to hurt Halder’s business and send him packing. In one scene, the neighborhood had been indignant when Bibi had been repeatedly treated inhumanely, such as leaving her on the roof or not checking on her when she had