House Opposite (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: R. K. Narayan
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: The fictional town of Malgudi in South India
- Principal Characters: The hermit, The prostitute
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Social issues, Sin or Original sin, Prostitution or prostitutes, Hermits, 1980’s, Obsession, Asia or Asians, Good and evil, India or East Indian people, Hindus or Hinduism, Houses, mansions, or manors
- Locales: India
The Story
R. K. Narayan's “House Opposite” appears in his collection of short stories, Under the Banyan Tree, and Other Stories (1985). As suggested by the word “opposite” in the title, the story deals with two fundamentally opposite ways of life, represented by the hermit and the prostitute. The story is told in the third person, in a delightful ironic mode, with its spotlight on the hermit's consciousness.
The story opens with the hermit's shock when he discovers one day that the house across the street is occupied by a prostitute, who is being visited...
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