Genre
Fiction
Setting and Context
Set in 2016 in London and written in the context of generational conflict.
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
The tone is colloquial, and the mood is insightful.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character is Yasmin Ghorami.
Major Conflict
There is a conflict between Arif and his father. Arif wants to live his own life, but his father is strict and wants everything done according to his directions. The father rose from poverty to become a doctor and wants his son to know that life is not about fun.
Climax
The climax comes when Yasmin decides to leave her marriage after realizing that Joe is using her to hide his sexual immorality. Joe has many partners outside marriage but still wants society to view him as an upright man. At last, Yasmin is happy to pursue her dreams, and for the first time, she makes personal decisions to shape her destiny.
Foreshadowing
Generational differences foreshadow the misunderstanding between Arif and his father. Arif is living in the modern world and wants to do things his way. However, the father pushes him to live in the recent generation that strictly observed faith and cultural norms. To prove his father wrong, Arif fathers a child out of wedlock to show that he can make his own decisions.
Understatement
Despite knowing Joe's sexual flaws, Yasmin understated his ability to continue with the same vice even after marriage. Things worsened after marriage because Joe used it as a cover-up because he increased the number of his sexual partners outside marriage.
Allusions
The story alludes to cultural change, marriage, and feminism. Yasmin lives in a conservative family that strictly observes religion and customs. However, she gets married to a family that observes modernity, where traditions do not matter. Yasmin's mother-in-law is a feminist, and she writes sexually explicit materials. Yasmin's marriage with Joe fails because of immorality.
Imagery
Imagery is depicted when Arif sees a naked picture of Harriet in a 1990s magazine. The picture portrays the true character of Harriet, a feminist and woman who is not ashamed of doing what she wants.
Paradox
The main paradox is that Yasmin knows that Joe is a womanizer before she gets married to him but she goes ahead with the wedding preparations. Later, Yasmin starts complaining about her husband's infidelity, and they finally divorce.
Parallelism
There is a parallelism between Ghoram's ambition to influence his daughter to pursue medicine to become a doctor and his family's aspirations.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
N/A
