Silver Pavements Golden Roofs

The protagonists of her novel struggle between the irony of past memory and new situation.

Silver pavements golden roofs.

Jayanti s mindset initially presents an optimistic future and more idealistic view of america but upon her arrival this idealistic view slowly begins to deteriorate by her uncle s view of america. Will i marry a prince from a far off magic land. She no sooner realizes that the image is false but does not let her discoveries disappoint. She is given a.

Will blum. America isn t all it said to be. The story silver pavements and golden roofs set in chicago starts with jayanti s high expectations about america and apprehensions about her aunt and uncle with whom she wants to stay while pursuing higher studies. Where the pavements are silver and the roofs are gold.

She goes to reside with her aunt pratima and uncle bikram. In the short story silver pavements golden roofs the author chitra divakaruni highlights and enhances the theme of how jayanti s high class and wealthy background sets her up for high expectations of living the american dream but later on disappoint her. She is quickly embittered when she sees that her aunt s house and neighborhood are very ordinary. Bikram is a mechanic there and though appears rough has much love for his wife.

Chitra banerjee divakaruni is an award winning and best selling author poet activist and teacher. Silver pavements golden roofs chitra s story silver pavements golden roofs expresses the narrator jayanti s journey to america for her higher studies. Happens in most of the female characters of the novelists like manju kapur chitra banerjee divakaruni and bharati mukherjee. From the beginning of the story jayanti shows signs of assimilation and acceptance to become an american.

Jayanti is talking about america and eventually realizes that this isn t true. In another story silver pavements golden roofs jayanti the daughter of a rich aristocrat goes to study abroad in america taking up lodging at the house of her aunt pratima. Jayanti similar to many other immigrants come to america with the expectation of silver pavements and golden roofs. This quote taken from silver pavements golden roofs by chitra divakaruni is part of the dialogue that takes place during jayanati and her aunt s walk.

The narrator jayanti in silver pavements golden roofs by chitra divakaruni illustrates a good example of how a person loses their individuality and self identity to do whatever it takes to assimilate and fit into the society. It is a quote that especially caught my eye and that i feel has many hidden depths and meanings that go beyond the surface of the passage. The title of the story is derived from her childhood dream song which reflects her ambitions.