wealth+and+poverty


 * __Wealth & Poverty__**
 * Thesis**: Jhabvala uses characters from diverse cultures to convey contrasting perceptions of wealth in different time periods set by the two narratives in the novel.


 * Examples**:
 * 1) The Nawab**
 * “such a modern person. [...] almost like one of us. [...] He’s so entirely //emancipated//.” (pg. 60).
 *   “had neither interesting ruins nor was it hunting country" (pg. 13)
 *    “It’s criminal,’ said Mrs. Crawford with deep feeling. ‘When he could so easily control it – if he wanted to –‘ (pg. 60).
 * "I told you: one does not say no to such a person." (pg.30).


 * 2) Anne**
 * “Getting myself a set of Indian clothes was one of the first things I did after settling down in Satipur.” (pg. 8)
 * “[Inder Lal] keeps looking round for furniture but there isn’t any.” (pg. 5)
 * "Chid and I have now merged into the landscape, we are part of the town, part of the people’s lives here, and have been completely accepted.” (pg. 68)
 * "I lie awake for hours: with happiness, actually. I have never known such a sense of communion…how different from my often very lonely room in London.” (pg. 45)
 * 3) Chid**
 * “He too developed dysentery and ringworm but was not bothered by them because of living on such a high plane" (pg. 20)
 * “Dust storms have started blowing all day, all night…everyone is restless, irritable, on the edge of something…Chid doesn’t seem to be affected by the weather.” (pg. 69)
 * “But his chanting had transported him elsewhere—perhaps into a wider, cooler, brighter, more beautiful regions.” (pg. 70)
 * “He doesn’t believe in possessions and thinks it is bad for people to be attached to them.” (pg. 55)
 * “Some of the shopkeepers allow him to sit in their stalls with them and occasionally he collects quite a crowd” (pg. 55)
 * “‘Oh how he will love it, this good boy!’ She laughed loudly, then took his cheeks between her hands and squeezed them lovingly." (pg. 73)