The Ole Ball and Chain: Images of Marriage and Home in Butlers Kindred, Carpentiers The Lost Steps, and Lahiris A Real Durwan
This paper examines three texts and discusses the ways in which images of home and images of marriage in all three texts are connected and demonstrate that at their most basic these institutions are manifestations of a human need for security. The texts examined are Butler's Kindred, Carpentier's The Lost Steps and Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies.