Originally posted by: EnVeeHow subtly you have shown the difference between a middle class family and an iyer one at that and that of a well-to-do one. In the same place, II as a new mother would not have been allowed to even step out of her bed. Appa will see the difference when II has her baby.
It is no one's fault essentially that Akka has to rough it out in life. She is not unhappy but too rattled by the mundane problems that they cannot help. There are several times when I have dropped some idea because I have to be at home with parents. It does not make me a bad person. Perhaps a priority at that moment. Bala too, perhaps. It was not wise of him to say I want to be home today maybe. But perhaps his thought process is that Vandu is cared for here, but there my parents may need one young help at least. Vandu is not wrong, neither is Bala. As a care giver, sometimes, you tend to worry much more than is warranted. Perhaps Bala is a wimp too. Who knows.
As a reader, I see the clear distinction between real and dream here. R&B and II are the dream. Everyone else is part of the real that keeps walking into the dream and the dream keeps walking into their lives. When this happens, we see what is real and what is the dream and how the dream gets busted to see the real. It is indeed nice. To see the dream and the real walk side by side.
(this is what happens when I review. harikathai maadiri...)
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