contrast

 **__Thesis Statement__** By using contrast, the author distinguishes the two characteristics of Olivia and Anne who although lead parallel lives, are very different in terms of personality, lifestyle, and their different approaches to India and it's culture.

__**Points**__
 * Styles of Living
 * 1) Wealth
 * 2) Poverty
 * Perception
 * 1) Olivia: Third Person
 * 2) Anne: First Person
 * Attitude towards India
 * 1) Satisfied, content, happy, interaction with India
 * 2) Unsatisfied, unhappy, segregation with India
 * Decisions
 * 1) Olivia: Aborts baby, tells Nawab and Douglas about baby
 * 2) Anne: Keeps baby, tells no one of baby

__**Text References**__
 * Styles of Living**
 * "she knew the Nawab would come and call on her, and every day she dressed herself in one of her cool, pastel mulins* and waited" (17)
 * "Harry declared himself charmed with her room - he loved her black and white prints, her Japanese screen, her yellow chairs and lampshades... oasis" (18)
 * "I now wear a pair of baggy trousers tied with a string at the waist such as the Punjabi peasant women wear and their kind of knee-length shirt... sandals" (9)
 * "I have been very lucky and have already found a room here. I like it very much. It is large, airy, and empty." (6)
 * "Although I'm now dressed like an Indian women, the children are still running after me; but I don't mind too much as I'm sure they will soon get used to me." (9)
 * Attitude Towards India**
 * "She had always thought of herself as a very introspective person. But here she was beginning to dread these lonely days locked up with the servants who padded around on naked feet and respectfully waited for her to want something" (18)
 * "So now I too have dragged my bed out into the courtyard and have joined it on to the Inder Lals' line" (51)
 * Decisions**
 * "Anyway, I have decided not to tell him about my pregnancy. I don't want to spoil anything." (123)
 * "It was absolutely clear to me now that I wanted my pregnancy and the completely new feeling - of rapture - of which it was the cause" (144)
 * "When Olivia found that she was pregnant, she didn't tell Douglas. She put it off from day to day, and in the end it happened that she told the Nawab first" (123)
 * "After that it wouldn't have been fair not to tell Douglas as well, and she did so that same night" (126)
 * "I've been thinking about having an abortion," - Olivia (140)
 * "... She didn't know why: perhaps because she wasn't having a baby? She thought if she had a baby - a strapping blond blue-eyed boy - everything would be all right. " (107)