![]() ![]() With its stereotyped characters: a widow on her own, a student far away from home and an uncle-nephew duo struggling against caste prejudices and all of them struggling to survive under Emergency’s shadow. At a cursory glance the novel fits in very nicely as a typical Bollywood masala movie. In other words the text is non-intrusive. We are left to make out whatever of their psychological make-up from their conversations or actions. It doesn’t probe at all the intentions or the mental make-up of the characters. The text is just a long list of all the events and various descriptions. In the novel the text as such, basically the descriptive part other than the character’s conversations or their thoughts, stands out for its stark factuality and linearity of time. The question is why did Mistry choose to write in such a mode? Now an analysis of the narrative style of a text will necessarily involve a close scrutiny of the intention of writing it. A style that has become suspects and largely outmoded in this postmodern period. Analytical Essay On The Narrative Style Of A Fine Balance By Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance uses a straightforward third person omniscient narration. ![]()
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