A Pair Of Jeans 1988 Summary

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The title of the short story is “A Pair of Jeans 1988”.
The title indicates that it was in this year “jeans” were getting more popular and famous. Jeans are symbolic of the western world. It is about a girl, who is wearing a pair of jeans. The jeans are showing the cultural differences between Indian/Muslim culture and Western culture.
Themes in the story are Immigration, culture conflict, patriotism, traditionalism, cultural encounters, the life of a foreigner in (the) UK, shame, marriage, and religion.
The reason for, the text having all of these themes, is that it is a story about cultural conflict. The Narrator is third person narrator, with a restricted rather than omnipotent view. It is a narrative mode mainly descriptive. The point …show more content…

The site of the story is in North West of England is described on page 1 line 7:
“for hill walking in the peak district, in the North West of England.”
The only place, we hear about her going upstairs to her bedroom from the living room is at page 2 line 24: Squeezing past her mother and out of sight of their guests who had now entered their sitting room, Miriam almost ran up the stairs to her bedroom. At page 2 line 3, Mariam’s house has a front yard through this quotation: He pushed the gate open in two strides had crossed the driveway and was now solidly knocking on the front door.
The story is in the real world since there are not any unreal things in the text. It seems like the story’s social environment is a bit sad. The story is playing in Miriam’s house, and it is like, Miriam’s entire future life depends on her parents in law.
Miriam's family does not have much money; they are probably members of the middle or lower class. It is as if Miriam must impress her parents in law to get a happier life, and she needs to wear “sari” before she can live happily. At page 1 line 34: and yet these were the very people she wanted to

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