R.K.Narayan's Painter of Signs
So simple is the word, yet so complex! So little it seems, yet so deep! Very distant it may seem, but resides within every heart! It is nothing other than Love. The love that a mother has for her child, the love that a hungry person has for food, the love that Romeo and Juliet shared! The love between these two eternal lovers was true. It is very hard to find true love in this world. Most of the time, people get hurt because the person they love, more than anything else, ditches them. The novel, 'The Painter of Signs' by R. K. Narayan, is a story of a painter, Raman, who is ditched by the love of his life, Daisy. Raman blindly falls in love with Daisy and does not care about anything else except for her. Daisy being a family planning propagationist, values her mission more than Raman's love and leaves him at the end to carry on her aim. This not only leaves Raman all alone but he also loses his only relative, his aunt. Thus, Raman's blind love for Daisy brings isolation for Raman, hurts him and makes him lose his trust in love.Raman is left all alone when Daisy leaves him to pursue her aim of family planning. Daisy, being a family planning propagationist becomes very unpopular among
Raman never imagines that his love would be so short-lived and would end up so abruptly. The hurt that Daisy causes him can not be forgiven or repaired. the women of Malgudi. Her background is not known. The rumours say that she is a run-away girl. In the city of Malgudi, which is quite narrow-minded, a girl living all by herself, whose background is not known is considered a great issue. Raman's regular visits to Daisy's place become a hot topic of discussion. He starts becoming cut-off from rest of the people of Malgudi in order to avoid hearing rumours about Daisy and him. Daisy is also believed to be a Christian as her name is English. On the other hand, Raman is a Hindu-Brahmin. Raman is a very simple man, who has never fallen in love until he meets Daisy. He never thinks about women. Daisy is the first woman in his life and he falls in love for the first time. He has never been thinking about anything else except his paintings before meeting Daisy. After Daisy comes into his life, his life totally changes. He starts living in a paradise. He values his love above all the things in the world. He believes her, and is ready to do anything to please her. When Daisy dumps him to carry on her mission, without giving a thought to him and his life, he loses all his trust in love. After she leaves, he moves towards his old routine with a heavy heart.
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Approximate Word count = 1078
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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