Mrs. Das
and Mrs. Sen are two interesting characters to compare. Both Indian women who are unhappy and
somewhat bored with their lot in life, Mrs. Das and Mrs. Sen both embody domestic
dissatisfaction, but they do so in contrasting and unique ways.
Mrs. Das, who
is Indian by heritage and American by citizenship, expresses her dissatisfaction with spoiled
gestures of entitlement and selfishness, while Mrs. Sen is more of a martyr to her
dissatisfaction. Both women are young and married, and both are lonely in their marriages; Mrs.
Das is described as perhaps not yet thirty years old, while Mrs. Sen is thirty, and neither
woman feels particularly at home with their husbands. Mrs. Das acts out by cheating on her
husband, while Mrs. Sen almost revels in her sense of alienation, even going as far as to crash
the car as a show of how helpless she is in her condition.
Lahiri'sof the two
women highlights the universality of feelings like loneliness, disappointment, boredom, and
alienation. Though the two share few personality characteristics, they do share emotions that
are a result of their circumstances.
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