A Wife’s Story (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bharati Mukherjee
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Panna Bhatt, Her husband, Charity Chin, Imre
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Husbands, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Wives, Twentieth century, New York City, Asia or Asians, India or East Indian people, Asian Americans
- Locales: New York, NY
The Story
Panna Bhatt is attending a performance of David Mamet's play Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) in New York City with Imre, another immigrant separated, as she is, from his mate. They are not lovers, but they share the intimate friendship that only alienated foreigners in an adopted country can know; theirs is the mutual bond of strangers in a strange land. She thinks the play insults her culture and also insults her as a woman. She is so offended that she decides to write to Mamet to protest his depiction of East Indians.
She and Imre discuss her sensitivity to...
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