Hell-Heaven by Jhumpa Lahiri

In the condensed figment, Hell-Heaven, by Jhumpa Lahiri, the character Pranab Kaku, provides the lecturer with deep insight into his ofttimes evasive mind. Pranab Kaku has unconditional pick out and a strong familiarity towards different characters while remaining an ambiguous figure overall. The theme of cultural identity is reflected by to each one characters depth. Jhumpa Lahiri uses first person institutionalise of view to further get to the familiarity of the characters in this short story. The story is told from the perspective of Usha, the daughter of Aparna. We nock her cultural troubles and the struggles of all the characters done her perspective.\nPranabs character is the catalyst for exchange for Aparna and her family. In the beginning of the story, he was immediately accepted into Ushas family callable to their shared cultural heritage. He was accepted into the family as a brother of the father. Usha called him uncle and Pranab called Aparna Boudi, the tr aditional Bengali way of addressing an older brothers wife. Lahiri shows that Pranab was smell for a surrogate family in the way he associates Aparna with his family in Calcutta, He noniced the cardinal or three preventative pins she wore fastened to the thin money bangles that were behind the red and face cloth ones, which she would use to replace a missing hook on a blouse or to heave a string through a petticoat at a moments notice, a blueprint he associated strictly with his bring and sisters and aunts in Calcutta (63). Ushas family was willing to train Pranab into the family since they were all dealing with adapting to a spic-and-span country.\nAparna was most bear on by Pranabs introduction into her family. Lahiri uses Ushas level to reflect on the changes her arrive is going through, I did not know, back then, that Pranab Kakus visits were what my mother looked frontwards to all day, that she changed into a new sari and combed her copper in anticipation of h is arrival, and that she planned, age in advanc...