Naipaul's failure to deal with social and ideological contexts.
Hanuman House is a symbol of dependence, servitude, and humiliation for Mohun Biswas. His in-laws, a wealthy family in Trinidad, have an unkindly way of disposing of their daughters and yet making sure that they were assured with their servitude: marrying them to high-caste, unemployed men. The men would be guaranteed a job within the family business; they wouldn't be paid, but they would receive accommodation and food, and they still would be considered in debt to the family for providing them the means for a livelihood. Mohun realizes this and begins to hate the sight of the house since it represents a life of servitude.
