The Management of Grief | Shaila Bhave
Shaila Bhave is the thirty-six-year-old protagonist and first-person narrator of the story. She is repressed through most of the story and outwardly shows only subtle emotions. Much of her character is revealed by what she wants to say, but does not. Yet under all the repression of emotion, she wants to talk. She first begins to open up to Dr. Ranganathan, partly because he seems to understand her and encourages her hope. Shaila regrets not telling her husband that she loved him, and when she writes an expressive poem to him and throws it in the sea, she begins to gain an authentic voice...
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