Interpreter Of Maladies

One word for this story is WOW! My first impression of reading this was disinterest I honestly almost just gave up on it but as I began to continue to read I notice that there was something strange about Mrs. Das and I was determine to figure it out. I notice even from the beginning of the story there seem to be a sense of unhappiness and bitterness in Mrs. Das, especially they way how she treated her kids. It really shocked me about the parents arguing about taking the little girl to the rest room, and how Mrs. Das dragged little Tina out the car. At the moment I thought that she was some evil step-mother that didn’t like any of the kids and Mr. Das referring to Mrs. Das actually name and not mom to the kids definitely confirmed my suspicion. But as the story began to develop I noticed that even when Tina did refer to Mrs. Das as “mommy” I went back to creating a new hypothesis about Mrs. Das. When I seen that Mrs. Das declined her daughters request to paint her nails  in such a non-caring attitude I just came up with the idea that maybe she was just unhappy with her marriage and family, and as I read I seen that being more true with each page I turned and read. And then when Mrs. Das told her confession to Mr. Kapasi my mouth dropped. I knew that it had to do with her unhappiness but I didn’t know it was to that level of unhappiness. I seen that her telling Mr. Kapasi about her life of deception and her adulterous relationship I notice her desperation of her wanting to get out and wanting help because she opened up to a total stranger, instead of confessing to her husband.