Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s short story “Clothes” captivates a transitory trajectory of an Indian women who migrated to United States of America with her husband after her marriage and suffers, accepts and adepts a complete socio-economic transition in her life. The essay would intend to focus on the paradox on which images apparently engages the thought process of the readers on the conflict that the protagonist of this story Sumita faces due to the paradigm shift in her life style from Indian to that of American and the way this conflict is expressed through the changes that she makes in the choice of her clothes and its colors at different times which are culminated through the images and myriad symbols operating within the tight-lipped plot of the story.
Conflicts in the Life of Sumita Culminated through the Symbolic Scheme
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s fictions are generally set against the background of India or in America and mostly they centre round the experiences of the South Asian immigrants especially the women. The story “Clothes” is not an exception in this regard. The story presents the transition that the protagonist, Sumita undergoes in her life. The story revolves round the transition of Sumita from a young girl to a woman; from woman to a wife and finally facing the climax and the predicament in her life by being a widow.
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