Question

When the image says—‘Her illness was unfortunate. But because of it, she got the best of everything’

How can it be related to what follows in the play?

Answer 1

While answering the questions posed at Manjula, she constantly reveals the noble personality of her sister while trying to collate herself with her and an attempt to conceal her diffidence simultaneously. When Manjula realized her inferiority to her sister, she evoked a defensive tone and said, “I did write a bestseller”. She understood her sister’s constraints and the attention meted out to her. But she had to convince herself that she actually understood the situation.

The voice of the image, if taken as the author’s spokesperson, made a comment which made the author blurt out the question that had left her perturbed, “Are you implying that I ‘used’ her?” However, she quickly dissembled her subconscious confessions and narrated how she too had been a sufferer.

She counterfeited the negative portrayal of her character as the need for a villain counterpart. Manjula feels that it was because of her illness that made her gain people’s attention, sympathy, and even from her husband, Pramod Murty, to whom she was very close.