Human Relationship in the Novels of R. K. Narayan

Pages:153-154
Narender Kumar1, Kum. Sheela Malik2 (Pt. N.R.S. Govt. College, Rohtak1, CMJ University, Shillong , Meghalaya2)

In all his dozen novels and most of the short stories, R.K. Narayan’s chief concern is human relationship, specially the relationship of the members of an Indian family were grandfathers, grandmothers, granduncles, parents, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, daughters and sons live in the same house. In this connection, William Walsh observes: The family, indeed, is the immediate context in which the novelist’s sensibility operates. And his novels are remarkable for the subtlety and conviction with which family relationships are treated that of son and parents, brother and brother in The Bachelor of Arts. Of husband and wife and father and daughter in The English Teacher, of father and son in The Financial Expert, of grandmother and grandson in Waiting for the Mahatma, father and estranged son in The Vendor of Sweets.