When Mr. Kapasi Analysis

In this story Lahiri shows the difficulties of Indians and how the have related to Americans and the ways in which Indian and Americans caught in the middle of the two different cultures. Mr. Kapasi because of his typical Indian background and patriarchal ideology cannot understand the complicated situation. Mrs. Das has been through as a young lonely housewife and mother. Rather than understanding the complete dryness and dullness of her married life as the cause of her complete indifference towards extramarital relationship, he considers it as an act of untruthfulness and traces her pain and suffering to her feelings of guilt. Instead he considers Mrs. Das like that of a typical Indian lower middle class housewife completely devoted her life to the service of the husband

Dalal often gives food to Boori Ma and takes cared on her and promised to will give a new carpet to her When Mr.Dalal was bought a sink and instal in the stairwell. When the time of Boori Ma’ absent in the appartment is out one afternoon, the sink stolen by the robbrs. So the neighbours accused Boori Ma. For them, she is the informer of the robbers. Despite her honesty, she is finally fired off when the newly fitted washbasin gets stolen. The inhabitants accuse her of her negligence and start looking for the ‘real durwan’.

It focuses on the sufferings and pains of the lower class people because of forced diasporas and political struggle. At the end she is suspected as a informer to the robbers .

Jhumpa Lahiri describe the impossibility of an emotional pain to others through the east Bengali refuge of BooriMa. Thus alienation and identity crises are the themes of the story. Alienation and identity crises explores the idea of displacement because BooriMa is displaced from Pakistan to India. She lost her financial identity and her economic identity. That the fiinal incident symbolizes that she has been always alienated in West Bengal and her identity will be always attached to East