KEYWORDS :- Marriage, love, emotions.
INTRODUCTION:- In order to have a healthy relationship one should have an emotional connection with their partners. A marriage is based on trust, emotional and love without that any relationship couldn’t survive. …show more content…
The short story ‘Nobody’s Business’ is a complex love story of two major characters Sangeet aka Sang and Paul. Sang a Bengali women in her thirties living in US share a apartment with Paul and Heather and Paul develops a secret love for her. Later in the story they find that Sang has a boyfriend named Farooq and Paul never expresses his feeling towards Sang. At first everything seems to be ok between Farooq and Sang but after three years of strong relation they started to drift apart from each other. They have fights daily and when Sang directly talks to Farooq about getting settle he goes out of the house with giving excuse about not getting married to a girl like her in anger. After this fight she goes to London to visit her sister and then a phone call from a girl name Deirdre comes for Sang, and Paul talks to her and comes to know about the truth about Farooq. When Sang is back she receives a call from Deirdre and then she comes to know the truth about Farooq. In all this Paul hides his feeling towards Sang and goes to confront Farooq with her with all the drama at the end the truth is reviled in front of her. And she leaves US and get settle in London with her sister. In all this we can see relation, betrayal, silent love, breaking of trust, in a relationship beautifully intertwined with each …show more content…
Kaushik and hema both born in US and kaushik moving back to Indian with his family. Their diasporic family has close relationship. By the age of 13 and 16 Hema and Kaushik emotionally close to each other. After kaushik get in university for further studies he is deep shock about his mother death and after her mother’s death and has to face the fact that his father has married to Chitra after his mother’s death. After this incident both Hema and Kaushik break up with each other. And Hema marries Naveen, later at the end of the trilogy we come to know about that kaushik is dead. Hema and kaushik emotional entangled in three stages of their life the three chapters.
CONCLUSION :- Thus this research shows how love, emotional connection, marriages falling apart, new relation bond, extra marital affairs all different shades of modern relationships are beautifully intertwined with each other the characters portrayal by Jhumpa Lahiri. Lahiri has shown love a highly comforting self fulfilling human experience. It is love to which the world has to head and hold. These stories are coughed entangled between the family relations, culture traditions, individual identities, sense of isolation and alienation and finally