The Third and Final Continent (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1960's to 1990's
- Setting: London, England, and Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Mala, Mrs. Croft, Helen Croft
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Husbands, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Wives, Twentieth century, Immigration or emigration, England or English people, India or East Indian people, London, Landlords or tenants, Loneliness, Western Europe or western Europeans, Old age or elderly people, Isolation, Massachusetts
- Locales: London, England, Cambridge, MA
The Story
“The Third and Final Continent” is the story of how a young immigrant adjusts to his new home and new bride. The heroine of the work is an eccentric, elderly widow, who manages to help the young man feel less lonely. She shows him qualities in his wife that he had not noticed and provides him with a model for his future life.
The narrator's account starts with his departure from his native India and continues with a summary of his five-year stay in London. After obtaining a job at a library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he returns to...
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