Why a Robin? ˇV Shashi Deshpande
"The talk flows above and around me, leaving me untouched."
At the beginning of the story, I thought the writer was a loser who failed to take control of her life. The narrator was not content with her look, and she believed her 12 years old daughter was prettier and smarter than she was.
The story illustrated a woman who lacked social skills - a woman who could not communicate with her daughter, her husband, and her husband's family. How could she did all the works, like cleaning and cooking, and let others ignore her as if she was invisible? As a mother, she let her daughter walked away from her with ignorance. The narrator didn't even possess the pride a mother should have.
The narrator felt like "as if I am, in my own house, confronted with two closed rooms." The two closed rooms were metaphors of her husband and daughter. I could not believe a person with degrees in economics and in law had such a family life.
The narrator wasnˇ¦t satisfied with her life, but the situation started to change once she got out of her bed to comfort her daughter. I saw the hope for the narrator to change her world around her, and she might not be the loser I thought she was after all. Although the story ended without further information of what happened next, I still would think the good things were about to happen soon after the last word of the story.
At the end of the story, the narrator sat besides her daughter, watching her daughter without a word. The scene was touching, and I believe the love inside the narrator was revealed at that point. I suppose the love was what motivated the narrator to write such a story.
When I was reading the story, I felt like I know those people in the story. The story was so real that I can relate my own experience with that of the narratorˇ¦s. The way you feel unimportant, not able to communicate with your loved one, and the memory of the good family time.
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