In a great Man's House

In Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s “In a Great Man’s House” the story happens in India where the social, religious and cultural situation is very different from what we have in our western society. The oppression of the Indian women, poverty and social casts are issues that are still very present in India. But, although the story take place in a setting very different from ours, it portrays basic features of the human personality which …

…also needs to establish herself in a loving and intimate relationship in which her need to love and be loved is satisfied. She does not get this relationship from her husband and son. She therefore turns toward her niece which represents for her the daughter she never had. Work sited Ruth, Prawler Jhabvala. “In a Great Man’s House ”. In The Heath Introduction To Fiction. Ed. John J. Clayton. Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1996.