Re-defining Marriages in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies

ABSTRACT

Jhumpa Lahiri is a second generation migrant who was born in London and raised in Rhode Island, America. Lahiri has created a fictional world of characters who have migrated from Asia to America. Her stories deal with the couples who are entrapped in a marriage but they are unhappy in their life. They can trace their roots in India and at present they are in America. The difference between the social values, culture, traditions and language between the motherland and this new country America play a complex role in their marriages.

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