![]() ![]() Kapasi’s perceptions but not those of the other characters. Das does not seek his love, but merely his professional help. Interpreter of Maladies is told from third-person limited point of viewthat is, the story is told by an objective narrator who reveals the perceptions of Mr. By the end of the story, however, his hopes are once again dashed, as he realizes that Mrs. During the course of his outing with the family, he begins to believe that his attraction to her is reciprocated. Das, and begins to fantasize about a romantic relationship with her. Kapasi is particularly drawn to the young and attractive Mrs. Perhaps because of these dissatisfactions and disappointments, Mr. He is stuck in an unhappy marriage with a wife from whom he has grown estranged following the death of their son. ![]() Instead, in middle-age, he finds himself chaperoning tourists and working a second job as an interpreter of maladies in a doctor’s office to support his family. As a young man he had dreamed of working as an interpreter for diplomats and dignitaries, but life has not lived up to Mr. Kapasi is intrigued by the foreignness of Mr. Although written in the third person, “The Interpreter of Maladies” is largely filtered through his consciousness and point of view. A forty-six-year-old tour guide working in India, who accompanies the Das family on a sightseeing trip to the Sun Temple. ![]()
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