discuss the themes in the story "wife's holiday"?
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In Wife’s Holiday by R.K. Narayan we have the theme of trust, desperation, selfishness, greed and control. Taken from his Malgudi Days collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story it becomes clear to the reader that Narayan may be exploring the theme trust. Kannan cannot be trusted. So desperate is he to play dice that he has taken all of his son’s money. Without thinking about anybody but himself. To ease his mind Kannan justifies taking the money thinking that he will profit while playing dice and have enough money to return the coins to his son’s saving box. However Kannan who has been so driven by his actions of breaking open the saving box does not seem to realise that even if he puts the money back in the box. His son will still know that something is wrong because the saving box has been smashed by Kannan. The saving box itself may also be important as symbolically it represents two things. Firstly it represents or symbolises Kannan’s son’s aspirations for the future and secondly for Kannan the box acts as a means to escape and play dice. Neither representation goes hand in hand with the other. Which may be the point that Narayan is attempting to make. He make be suggesting that any aspirations that Kannan’s son has will never be achieved due to Kannan’s greed.
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