Question

The postmaster by rabindranath tagore character analysis

Answer 1

Ratan is one of the simplest and yet one of the most enigmatic feminine characters in Rabindranath Tagore's short stories. She is village girl, simple, honest, caring. She is illiterate at the beginning of the story but slowly learns to read and write under the guidance of the postmaster. she does the odd jobs for him. She is well-behaved and obedient to her master. She is an orphan and suffers from a deep-rooted agony of absolute solitude. Thus in the postmaster's acts of education and storytelling about his own family back in Calcutta, she glimpses a loving company of familial relations. Her need for love and be loved is accentuated and the way she starts to refer to the postmaster as 'dada' is a sign of growing intimacy.