The Man with the Dog (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ruth Prawer
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Plot: Sketch
- Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century
- Setting: New Delhi, India
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Shammi, Boekelman, Susi
- Genres: Short fiction, Sketch
- Subjects: Dogs, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, India or East Indian people, Widows or widowers, Netherlands or Dutch people
- Locales: New Delhi, India
The Story
The narrator imagines herself as she was in earlier days: a beloved and respected Indian wife and mother, faithfully fulfilling her household duties. Now, however, her visits with her children and grandchildren degenerate into bitterness because references to her current relations with a European man named Boekelman are unavoidable. She alternately laughs and cries when she considers, at her age, that she has such passion for a man who is as advanced in years as herself. She reminisces about their first meeting. It happened, significantly enough, as the result of an...
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