Interpreter of Maladies
Personal Reaction
Mr. Kapasi's job, besides being a tour guide, is to interpret patients' symptoms to the doctor. Mrs. Das asks him to do the same for her. She wants him to interpret her illness of not loving her husband anymore, and she wants him to explain it to Mr. Das. I thought this was a lot to ask of someone whom she had just met. She also opened up to him about her indiscretions very quickly. Because of this I got the sense that Mr. Kapasi was just one of those people that are easy to talk to. Because of her openness, Mr. Kapasi no longer likes her. Usually, when you discover more about someone you like it is a positive thing. I would have felt sorry for her had she not seemed so cold and mean throughout the story. It was an odd story in that Mr. Kapasi liked Mrs. Das so much in one day of knowing her, but by the way he described her I felt she was pretty stuck up.
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