Journey with Metaphors: Such a Long Journey
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 3
Abstract
Bombay, the city where Rohinton Mistry spent his initial years of life, features prominently in almost all his works. Bombay is Mistry’s landscape, the canvas on which he paints the details of his character’s anguish, joy and pathos. Mistry’s Bombay is enigmatic and projects itself in various ways externally. Beauty and ugliness are found side by side in his depiction of this city. Bombay is not just a physical reality but instead becomes a continuing metaphor in all his writings. This paper deals with Mistry’s delineation of the great city Bombay at a metaphorical level in his novel Such a Long Journey. The people, places, activities, noises etc. provide the connecting link to the happenings of this novel. The specific landmarks of the city of Bombay become recurring but varied metaphors all through the book.
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Bhumika Ansodaria
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