Question

what is the significance of colour , portrayed in the short story , yellow fish

Answer 1

Answer:

The story, Yellow Fish is one of her most passionately feminine works. ... With the unwanted, thrown away fish too, comes an upsurge of images with vivid colours, the colour yellow being associated with the pale rusting leaves, that fall, and are left to lie around in the most discarded state.

Answer 2

Answer:

The story, Yellow Fish is one of her most passionately feminine works. ... With the unwanted, thrown away fish too, comes an upsurge of images with vivid colours, the colour yellow being associated with the pale rusting leaves, that fall, and are left to lie around in the most discarded state

Explanation:

In one’s life, convections and creativity fall into a seamless unity very rarely. Ambai, the Tamil novelist has achieved this unique balance. In her short stories, “Yellow Fish” and “Once Again”, women are oppressed and have no scope for self-realization and fulfillment. Here, Ambai stimulates women to talk against the slavishness which prevails in the society at present. She depicts the real need for words in order to attain the real freedom. By showing each female protagonist, Ambai is not seeking revenge for the ills of Indian womanhood. She has fashioned a new concept of feminist fiction. She does not want to lock horns with male supremacy, but to make us aware that we are not to settle for an existence which is completely void.

Ambai is one of the most important Tamil writers today. Most of her stories are about relationships and they contain brilliant observations about contemporary life. Exploration of space, silence, coming to terms with one's body or sexuality, and the importance of communication are some of the recurring themes in her works. The seventeen stories collected in A Purple Sea represents the work of the innovative writer.

Early fiction writers always presented woman either as an epitome of virtue, or as an evil and enchanting whore. She was never portrayed as a human being capable of both good and evil. She was either put on a pedestal and worshipped as a Goddess, or dragged along the dirty streets of profanity, branded ‘a social outcast.’ These myths that were barriers to the realization of the ‘real woman’ were destroyed by the present day writers. The present day writers give us all the relevant particulars within the pages of a novel or a story. They do not eulogize women.

The focus of Ambai’s writing is the gradual shift from the external world to the inner world of the individual. The focus of interest lies in the portrayal of states of mind rather than in holding up the mirror to society. Her short stories are structured vertically. The effort is to capture the atmosphere of the mind, and directly involve the reader in the flow of a particular consciousness. A marked leaning towards such introspection is seen in Ambai’s writing.

Ambai’s female characters earn the title ‘silent sufferers’ while pointing out the farcical nature of all marriages and the illusory quality of all human relationships, both male and female. The quest of these women characters is by no means successful. But they are the pivot of Ambai’s fictional world and through them she discovers many themes for her short stories. They suffer from withdrawal, alienation, loneliness, isolation and lack of communication. They are alienated from family, from parents and even from their own selves because they are not average people. They are individuals made to stand against the general current.

In her story “Yellow Fish”, she compares the state of women to season. The images of hot sand and its inability to hold its wetness are the symbols of male dominated society in which women face fury and the ‘hot’ treatment of men.

When the fishermen sort out the fish, they throw the yellow fish into the sea shore, thinking that it is no more of use. They do not even care to put it in the sea where it could survive. Here, Ambai portrays the selfish attitude of men who dictate women. It is clear that in Indian society, women are expected to fulfill the needs of men and to be under their control. They drag them in the way they want. Whenever men think that they are not suitable to live with them, they simply throw them away as the fishermen throw the yellow fish. Women suffer by restraining their sensations.

The yellow fish enjoys its life as far as it is in the sea. It could go wherever it wants. There are no restrictions or limitations to control their freedom. The fish has the freedom to move until it gets caught by the fishermen. Here, Ambai focuses the married life of a woman. A woman is free till she enters into a wed-lock and once she is married, she is tied by the culture of the society. She looses her happiness and sacrifices her life as she is anticipated by the society. The married life of a woman mirrors a fish out of the sea. She struggles in many ways but she is unable to come out of it because of tradition, culture and society.

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