Janhabi Mukherjee

I remember reading this when I was younger, but the grandmother’s speech seems extremely significant to me now when I re read it here.
I wonder what she was trying to say?
She defines Christian marriage as a way for the Little mermaid to get an immortal soul, yet the way the story turns out, it is clear that marriage is not a sufficient way to gain a soul (as the author writes, an improper method’).
I feel like there’s some subtext on virginity/fornication in those lines that we’re missing, not necessarily related just to the concept of the soul, but to that of the Christian doctrine as a whole.

Great article! I love that you’ve given the list for ‘works cited’ for those of us who want to follow up.
Pointless observation, probably, but the concept of the two colour subtraction process, and read and green, made me think immediately of the rods and cones in the human eye. I wonder if the physics was somewhat similar, or if the structure was in any way actually inspired from the composition of the human body! Wouldn’t that be exiting :’D
Thanks for writing this, it was a great read.

Great, detailed article! Enjoyed reading it.
So you’ve written about how the protagonist is taken as the ‘unreliable narrator’ and things are shown from his perspective.
What I was wondering, was, (and I haven’t READ ‘The Great Gatsby’, only watched it, so I might be missing something obvious here) if the writer-protagonist there too would be counted unreliable? (Isn’t this at complete odds with his usual surface character of practicalness and straightforwardness?)
Also, if he IS to be considered unreliable, does then the story (because we hear it from his point of view) have some degree of that same unreliability, preventing us from being sure we know all the events that happened as ‘fact’ (as in ‘The Usual Suspects’, for example)?
Once again, great read. 🙂

Over a year late, but great article! The links between portrait representation and social media were rather interesting to read about.
You speak of the different personalities projected on different platforms (varying according to the purpose/features of the platform itself). I was wondering how this same phenomenon would figure if thought in context of the breaking out from the idea of one uniform singular identity for each person, and the more modernist idea of a multiplicity that makes up each person?
And also, would this multiplicity at all count, if one considers the ‘reality’ or ‘authenticity’ of a social media account?
Once again, amazing article 🙂