His characters fill today’s sterile apartment complexes rather than estates on the outskirts of Moscow, but the feeling is the same. Just as the water in Bombay was a compromised symbol because of the filth in it, so the pool of his swimming lessons fails as a symbol, presumably because he brought “impure” expectations to it. When they turn out to be less than attractive at close quarters, he remembers the swimming lessons he has signed up for, saying he has that “to look forward to.”He recounts a conversation with the attendant at the pool registration desk in which he explains his “non-swimming status” and she in turn explains why she never learned to ride a bicycle. Notice that the mother is discussing the very story the reader is reading as he or she is reading it. His disgusted response is to call her a “horny old cow,” not to her face, of course.As this case illustrates, the humor in Mistry’s narrative is characteristic of the sort that This confession prepares the reader for his account of the swimming lessons. But from our reader’s perspective, we grasp the Chekhovian comic-sadness of this lonely but persevering immigrant.
In these witty, poignant stories, Mistry charts the intersecting lives of Firozsha Baag, yielding a delightful collective portrait of a middle-class Indian community poised between the old ways and the new.Firozsha Baag is an apartment building in Bombay. He obtained a British-style education at the University of Bombay, studying mathematics and economics and receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in 1975.
asks Mistry) have all but refused his humanist and spiritual legacy.
Freud would appreciate how blatantly erotic images keep popping up and “dirtying” the situation whenever water is invoked in the narration. Wow!” The finale of these exchanges comes when she informs him that the old man’s son came to take him on a drive in his big beautiful American car. As he is submerging himself he decides he should find out the old man’s name. Soon though, it becomes apparent that the scene is Kersi’s parents’ apartment on the day they receive a letter from him in Toronto. Its ceilings need plastering and some of the toilets leak appallingly, but its residents are far from desperate, though sometimes contentious and unforgiving. In Rohinton Mistry. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. In this case the writer’s parents do it, but the effect is the same. In “Swimming Lessons” the focus is on the narrator, his human interactions, his sensitivity to social environments, and his perception of images and symbols from “the page of life itself,” as he puts it. He studied with This collection, the final episode of which is “Swimming Lessons,” centers around an apartment building in Bombay and showcases Mistry’s talent for sketching subtle, sympathetic, and often funny character studies of the tenants of the housing complex.
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The squeaky clean high school pool in Toronto is juxtaposed to the filthy sea of Bombay. Going under the water, as in a baptism, symbolizes death to an old life and rebirth to a new one. The narrator mentions it when he considers his grandfather’s osteoporosis and a fall that broke his hip. In a great flurry of thickly accented English she scares him with her broad sexual humor. One effect of this shift is to give a double vision of the narrator. “Beehive in Bombay.” Garebian, Keith. But when he resolves to find out the old man’s name, it is too late.