the squirrel of ambai a short story in short essay
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The Squirrel’ is a famous short story by Ambai. It was written in Tamil Language titled ‘Anil’ by Ambai and was translated into English by Vasanth Kannabiran and Chudamani Ragavan in 1992. The author is known for writing about women. This story also brings out the problems faced by women. Through this story she makes us understand how women’s writings were not taken care of in those days. The short story “Squirrel” voices about feminism and male domination.
The story “Squirrel” is based on the narrator’s visit to a library, which is full of feminist writing. She asked the librarian what was there on the top floor of the library. The librarian said that there was nothing but only dust. The narrator asked about the books there. The librarian replied that those were the books written by women. The narrator asked him to allow her to look at those books. There was a squirrel which has come there to eat the glue found on the covers of the books. The character of the squirrel in the story stood for the inner world of the narrator. The transition between dream and reality and vice versa is made through the representation of the squirrel. The narrator found volumes of PenmadhiBodhini and Jaganmohini and many other books in the third floor of the library. The narrator touched the spine of a mended, nineteenth-century book and felt as though a shock rose from the sole of her foot
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