Summary

The narrator, Anita, described the morning she woke up and realized she loved her husband, Rajinder. She revealed that the intensity of her love only lasted a few hours but gave no reason as to why it ended so quickly. She then recalled the move into their apartment in New Delhi, two days after the wedding. As Rajinder gave Anita a tour, she described feeling nothingness. She remarked how in his oversized clothes, Rajinder, appeared to be a small man. She noted that she would “think of myself with his smallness forever, bearing his children, going where he went, having to open always to his touch, and whatever I was looking at would begin to waver, and I would want to run” (Location 864). When Rajinder made multiple trips with his brother, Ashok, to collect the Anita’s dowry...