This Blessed House

This Blessed House written by Jhumpa Lahiri was basically a story discussing on how a Hindu couple handled all the Christian iconic items left around in their newly bought house. The story was more of a character driven story than a plot driven story, because they focused more on the way the characters acted than with what went on during the whole story. I thought the author did an excellent job describing all of the items found by the Hindu couple. I think that if I decided to close my eyes and let someone else read me the story I would have been able to picture everything well just like the author was planning to accomplish.

I probably would have acted the way Sanjeev and would have not liked all those religious items around my house if it was not the religion I believed in. Whenever I buy a house for me and my future family I do not want to find Mormon items laying around in my house. I also do not want my wife persuading me to leave the things around the house for other people to see whenever they come to my house. I want to have things around my house that represent me and my family not things that do not represent our beliefs. Sanjeev got himself caught up in a tough position because he really did not want the things sitting around for display in his house, but his wife kept convincing him to leave them alone and she would move them later. However, that was Twinkle’s way of persuading Sanjeev to keep the Christian items around and she did a good job of persuading. Girls are very good at convincing guys to do things guys do not want to do, and this story is a good example of that thought.