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Narrative Gerontology:A Study of Roy's The God of Small Things


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1 Department of English, Govt. P.G. College, Jind, Haryana, India
     

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They had never been shy of each other's bodies, but they never had been old enough (together) to know what shyness was.
Now they were. Old enough.
Old.
A viable die-able age.
What a funny word old was on its own, Rahel thought, and said it to herself: Old.
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Jyoti Sheoran
Department of English, Govt. P.G. College, Jind, Haryana, India

Abstract


They had never been shy of each other's bodies, but they never had been old enough (together) to know what shyness was.
Now they were. Old enough.
Old.
A viable die-able age.
What a funny word old was on its own, Rahel thought, and said it to herself: Old.

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