Uncle (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: R. K. Narayan
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: South India
- Principal Characters: Boy, Uncle, Aunt, Suresh, The tailor, Jayraj
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Culture, Values, Memory, Murder or homicide, Pain, Inheritance or succession, Loyalty, India or East Indian people, Nonviolence, Boys
- Locales: India
The Story
The narrator and protagonist, occupying and owning the house in which he was reared, recalls the stages by which he comes on some crushing knowledge, how he lives with it and finally realizes his present gain. Seated in the easy chair once occupied by his uncle, he reminisces in the silent, solitary setting, ideal and natural for a reverie, on how the man and woman he called his uncle and aunt used to dote on him as though he were their own child. Memories of simple joys such as are universal in happy homes crowd his mind—how Uncle used to push his snuffbox out of...
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