What is the central conflict, and is it resolved in the end in Interpreter of Maladies?

One
possible central conflict is the internal conflict that exists within Mr. Kapasi, the character
whose perspective guides "The ."

Mr. Kapasi is the driver hired by
the Das family while they are traveling in India from America. He experiences firsthand a clash
between traditional Indian family life, like his own, and the less familiar patterns of American
Indian families like the Das family.

Mr. Kapasi himself feels drawn to the
Das family, especially to Mrs. Das, but his attraction exists only in his imagination. He has a
difficult and frustrating life, and he is burdened by worry about his son and his own unrealized
potential as a man who has a gift for languages. Perhaps the Das family, with their bad manners
and loose morals, represent to Mr. Kapasi a kind of freedom that enables an individual to live
as one likes. This kind of freedom is totally inaccessible to Mr. Kapasi, which intensifies the
internal conflict as he struggles to figure out how he really...