In the story we hear about a woman, whom is very in touch of her religion. She is at her first party with her husband. She experiences a lot of Western people there, and their way to party. During the party she is offered a lot of cigarettes and drinks, which she politely declines, because of her religion, so throughout the whole evening she sits with a glass of orange juice. She feels the other guests does not approve of her not drinking, so each time a person comes near, she puts the glass to her lips in some protection. She feels all the other people are judging her, in the way she dress, that she doesn’t smoke or drink and that she doesn’t participate in the events. She is wearing rich traditional Indian clothes and jewelleries, which the Westerns absolutely don’t. They wear simple clothes that reveal their skin.
As said, she feels she is being judged from the moment she enters the party with her husband, by the Westerns, but in a way it is her who is judging the Western people. She does that by sitting and observing all the guests at the party. She does not socialize at all in order to understand the other culture. She criticizes how the women dress and how they act. She comments on their attitude towards drinking and dancing. It shows that it is not her who is judged person. Though it sounds like a very confident person, who has the energy to sit and criticize and comment on others acts, it is a woman who admires the confidence the women show. She simply can’t stand talking to other people, and don’t have any confidence herself at all.
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