summary of the ch- the postmaster by rabindranath
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Answer: The postmaster decides to teach Ratan to read, and she learns quickly from him, eager to become literate. However, the continual presence of heavy rainwaters in Ulapur causes the postmaster to become ill, and though Ratan nurses him back to health, “soothing his illness and loneliness with feminine tenderness,” he decides that he has to leave his post in the village. After he is denied a transfer to another village, he quits his job altogether. The postmaster explains to Ratan that he is departing Ulapur, devastating her.
Desperate, Ratan asks the postmaster to take her home with him, and the postmaster replies with disbelief: “How could I do that!” The postmaster assures Ratan that his replacement will look after her as he has, but Ratan finds no comfort in his words, declaring that she doesn’t want to stay in Ulapur without him. The postmaster then tries to give Ratan a sum of money—his left-over salary—but she refuses the payment, fleeing.
The postmaster travels by boat to Calcutta and recalls Ratan’s “grief-stricken face,” which speaks a “great inarticulate universal sorrow.” He realizes that he cannot go back to her, and he ponders the “many separations” and “many deaths” that pervade life. Ratan, left behind in Ulapur, nurses a “faint hope” that the postmaster might return, but Tagore’s narrator reflects that humans “cling with both arms to false hope,” even in the most dire of situations—suggesting that Ratan’s “hope” is utterly futile and ultimately cannot sustain her in the face of tragedy and loss.
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