The Meeting By Shama Futehally Summary

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The Meeting The Meeting is a short story written by the Indian author Shama Futehally. The short story is about how the thing you want the most sometimes ends up being the thing you want the least. The author has used her own knowledge about Indian girls and women to describe a very believable Indian women/girl and family. In this story we meet Sakina. Sakina is the main character in the story. Sakina is a not so young Indian unmarried girl. Sakina is described in the story as being 29, fat, unattractive, and looks like a nanny. She has been getting up later and later every morning. In spite of the fact that she is 29 years old Sakina is still very much a child. She has never been married and therefore she has never been forced to grow up and become an adult. Sakina knows her life will never change, and that knowledge is probably what is causing her to get up later and later every morning. Sakina does not appear to have any friends and therefore she probably spends a lot of time being alone. She dreams that one day a handsome man will ring the door and propose to her, but every time the door bell rings she knows it will not be a…show more content…
(p. 81 ll. 17-18) " The words, `He has a son, he has a son` were going round and round in her mind." Sakina is slowly realizing that someone wants to marry her. When her father asks her if they should arrange a meeting she just moves her face down and gives a little nod. She picks up the tea tray and leaves the room. The thing she has always hoped would happen, but never thought to be possible, were actually happening. She is thinking about her brother's wedding and how the bride had looked at the floor throughout the three days. The bride had started tearing up out of shyness whenever someone had remove her dupatta, which is the scarf she uses to cover her face. Sakina had watched her and hadn´t thought of anything else. Now her time may come and she will get to be the shy
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