The Only American from Our Village: Self - Aggrandizement in The Short Story by Arun Joshi
Keywords:
Indian English Literature, Moral degradation, Self - glorification, psychological realism, social realism, materialistic values, deteriorating societyAbstract
Today’s society is facing moral degradation because of the self – glorifying tendencies around us. But this can’t be applied to each and every younger person or with regards to this story each and every son. But this short story – The Only American From Our Village – by Arun Joshi shows the materialistic and rational view of Dr. Khanna; the son of this story. The anxiety and will to be in industrialization and urbanization shows Social realism and the effect of this on the lives of parents at the native towns focuses on the Psychological realism of today’s life elaborating the effects of self - aggrandizement.
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