Complexities in Marriage in Transnational World: A study of Jhumpa Lahiri's short story "Temporary Matter"

<p>Marriage in a traditional set up remains different to what it<br>can be in a place which is other than one’s native land. When<br>one moves from one’s native land, they carry the baggage of<br>their past identity which combines culture, tradition, habits<br>and other things related to one’s lifestyle. But when they move<br>to another nation, it becomes complex for them to cop-up with<br>the society there. When one goes to another nation to raise<br>one’s financial status, it becomes easy for him/her to<br>compromise with anything which comes in between.<br>Gradually, they gel themselves up there with the environment,<br>be it relationship of marriage or any other relation. But these<br>things are easy for the second generation immigrant to be that<br>fine with the life in migrated country but when it comes to<br>those who have seen half of their lives in their native land, for<br>them it is tough to adjust that easily. The short-story<br>“Temporary Matter” by Jhumpa Lahiri was published in the<br>collection Interpreter of Maladies. This short-story brings out<br>that how a tragic event brings catastrophe in a marriage.</p>