Analysis of 'January Night'

The short story is about an Indian couple, and the man works as a tenant farmer, where he pays the landlord to use the field. He chooses what to grow on his piece of land, but he must look after his fields himself. They are actually poor, and when Halku (the man) are going to watch after the fields at night in January, he is forced to own a blanket. If he is going to survive out in the cold, he has to spend his hard deserved three rupees (which is an Indian coin) on a blanket. Halku and his wife have a little discussion about his job, and if he is going to spend the money on a blanket to survive, or to pay the landlord the rent. At last Halku pays the landlord, and decide to go without the blanket. Halku’s faithful friend, Jabra the dog, goes with him in the fields and he’s kind of talking to the dog, to waste his time. It turns really cold during to night, and Halku freezes so much, that he don’t cares about anything else than surviving. At morning he wakes up, and sees that the good crop is all gone – eaten by the animals at night. His wife gets really mad, and says: ‘’now you’ll have to hire yourself out to earn some money to pay off the rent and taxes’’ and he answers her back in the end: ‘’yes, but I wont have to sleep night out here in the cold.’’