A Horse and Two Goats (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: R. K. Narayan
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: In and around Kritam, a South Indian village
- Principal Characters: Muni, His wife, The shopman, The foreigner
- Genres: Short fiction, Postcolonial literature
- Subjects: Culture, Family or family life, Rural or country life, Poverty or poor people, India or East Indian people, Stereotypes, Satire
- Locales: India
The Story
After setting the scene in Kritam, a tiny South Indian village, the story introduces old Muni and his wife, a poor, childless couple: “She was old, but he was older and needed all the attention she could give him in order to be kept alive.” The two have been married since he was ten and she eight: “He had thrashed her only a few times in their career, and later she had the upper hand.” At one time Muni was a relatively prosperous herdsman, with “a flock of forty sheep and goats.” He sold the sheep's wool and sold the animals for slaughter to a town...
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