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A Temporary Matter
Title: A Temporary Matter
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 446 | Pages: 1.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Temporary Matter
The first story of the collection, “A Temporary Matter,” focuses mainly on marital alienation but food emerges as a metaphor in the story. Shoba's disinterest in cooking comes about when the sense of alienation sets in after a miscarriage. As long as marital bliss was much present the kitchen had also been well stocked. Shoba's inclination to cook good food and to keep her kitchen in good shape is proportionate to and concomitant with her …showed first 75 words of 446 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 446 total…meals quite cautiously and lays the table quite romantically. Four days of communion are marked by food exotica but the morning of the fifth night comes with the ominous announcement that the lines had been repaired ahead of schedule. The first thing that conveys Shukumar's despair is again food: 'He was disappointed. He had planned on making shrimp malai for Shoba but when he arrived at the store he didn't feel like cooking any more.'(20)
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