| Abstrakt: |
Jhumpa Lahiri's short story Interpreter of Maladies describes the Indian American couple Mr. and Mrs. Das' visit to the land of their ancestors. Mrs. Das confides in Mr. Kapasi, the car driver and interpreter of maladies, that her husband has not sired the youngest son and seeks for a cure of psychic pain. This paper analyzes its ethical features from the perspective of ethical literary criticism. Specifically, it sees the interpreting of maladies as the major ethical line of the work and tries to decode such ethical knots as ethical environment, ethical choice, ethical identity, and ethical consciousness. Jhumpa Lahiri proposes the ethical burden as a cure for people in modern society in need of malady interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
