Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies | Themes

Celebration of the East, and India in particular, is the dominant theme in the story. However, rather than make India exotic, which is the common practice in the literature of Western cultures, Rushdie presents it in very realistic terms through the ordinary details of life. Readers see and experience the setting as dusty but colorful, with people eating food, doing business, and trying to make a profit or establish a life. In addition, when given the opportunity to stay in India and work as an ayah or go to England and live the life of a married woman, Miss Rehana prefers the former,...

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