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The Postmaster Analysis

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The postmaster is written by Rabindranath Tagore and concerns an unnamed postmaster who is assigned to remote post office in a small rural Indian village. The narrator of the story seems to be the resident of the village, since he refers to ‘our postmaster’. The postmaster is from a huge city of Calcutta and feels out of space in such a distant rural village. His house is really small and he feels really lonely over there as there is no one to accompany him. The workers in the nearby factory do not involve much with him. He is not a person who keeps himself occupied with many activities as he doesn’t like to socialize. The postmaster was not able to adjust in the village and he badly wanted to go back to his town. He was not getting much salary …show more content…

It represents the social position of the postmaster i.e. is his superiority or class or caste.

IMPORTANT SCENES AND ANALYSIS
‘He felt like a fish out of water in his own village ‘at the beginning of the story where the postmaster (protagonist) feels out of place and hardly had any desirable companions and the culture is very different.
Some other scenes were they discuss about their background and their family members where for Ratan it’s a fertile subject and only fragments of her playing with her brother after this conversation even the protagonist is in nostalgia of his mother and sister and their gentle and tender care and nurture once provided is substituted by the little girl.
The bond created between the two was beyond a master – slave relationship such as when the little girl calls out of respect the postmaster ’Dada’ and consequently how he teaches her …show more content…

This story is set in the town Kolkata early 20th century where a little girl named ‘Mini’ who is very fond of an Afghan fruit seller (Rahamat) who in others eyes were ordinary or scary such this girl’s mother asks question to her husband like ‘Are there no such instances of child abduction? Isn’t slave-trade still in practice in Afghanistan? Is it altogether impossible for a giant Afghan to kidnap a little child?’ but the innocence of a child present in this girl explores this bond and converses without fear to this stranger. The climax is when Rahamat is hand cuffed by police superintends for there was a quarrel with their neighbor who was indebted to the Kabuliwala for a Rampuri shawl and when the man denies his debt and is stabbed with a knife by this Afghan man. Several years after Rahamat is released from the prison he is seen at the front door of Mini’s father and requests him to show his daughter and to give these nuts and raisins which she cherished but the father denies his wish for it was an auspicious day (daughter’s wedding). He offers him money for the goodies sent for his daughter but to his astonishment he rejects and the Kabuliwala exclaims his reason for his visits to see the girl religiously was only because she reminded him of his daughter who is back in Afghanistan. Towards the end the fathers heart softens and calls out her daughter to

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