Abstract:
Abstract- Through the essay, the use of selective observations in the writing of Alice Munro, Doris Lessing and Jhumpa Lahiri, as a lens of an ordinary everyday events leading to exciting emotional and psychological journeys are analysed. These authors vary in cultural background and thematic interests, yet all three are masters at going deep into the emotional undercurrents just beneath the surface of everyday life. Munro often places her stories within small-town Canada, where the kinds of interactions most of us experience daily and the most prosaic of moments yield insight into memory, regret and identity. Lessing, generally speaking, more openly political, also deals in the quotidian — in conversations, family gatherings or banal social encounters — to probe larger elements of alienation, trauma and existential disquiet. Writing in the context of the Indian diaspora, Lahiri, too, explores the lives of immigrants in the West, and how moments such as preparing a meal or reading a letter are often the most evocative. For writers such as Munro, Lessing, and Lahiri, ordinary events become an agent for depth and intensity, and they share an ability to transform the mundane into the universally moving. These authors try to bring situational and behavioral aspects of daily existence into the broader psychological and social frameworks, elicit the shared emotions of loss, yearning, guilt, or recognition of change. Yet it is their vision of the power and depth of emotional life that surely brings significance and lasting and enduring influence for years.
Keywords– Emotional, Psychological, Mundane
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