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Jasmine Novel Summary and Analysis English literature
Bharati Mukherjee
- Indian American-Canadian writer
- professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley
- Novels, short stories, essays, travel literature, journalism.
Jasmine
- Jasmine - Bharati Mukherjee
- 1980s
- Mukherjee՚s own experiences of dislocation and displacement in her life helps her in recording the immigrant experience of the protagonist in this novel.
Summary
- Based on the short story in The Middleman and Other Stories,
- Story of a seventeen-year-old girl
- Widowed after her husband՚s murder in a bomb attack.
- Planned to move to Florida, but as a result of his death Jasmine continues with the trip on her own.
- Travels from Florida to New York City to Iowa.
- Story from her childhood about an astrologer
- Jasmine (known as Jane in Iowa) is 24 years old, pregnant and living with 53-year-old banker Bud Ripple Mayer, and his adopted son Du.
- Bud insists on marrying Jane, who refuses for unknown reasons.
- Bud is also in a wheelchair
- Jane and Bud have a neighbour named Darrel Lutz, a recent college grad who inherited his family՚s farm
- He is contemplating whether or not to sell his farm.
- Bud refuses to loan Darrel money
- Darrel has some romantic interest in Jane.
- Jane - life with Du and Bud
- Jyoti in India. Teacher - Masterji, teaches English.
- Masterji - Jyoti to continue her education
- Jyoti՚s father passes away, she meets Prakash. They marry
- Calls Jasmine
- Jasmine runs a Ladies՚ Group raffle
- Prakash – letter to study in America
- Killed.
- Jasmine continues with Prakash՚s plans to move to Florida
- Sexual harassment - Half-Face
- Jasmine meets Lillian Gordon,
- Lillian also has a daughter named Kate Gordon-Feldstein - photographer
- Calls Jasmine “Jazzy,” and helps Jazzy get to New York to meet Professor Vadhera.
- For five months, Jasmine lives with Professor Vadhera
- Green card, for fifty thousand rupees, or three thousand dollars.
- Jasmine works for Wylie and Taylor Hayes, friends of Kate Gordon-Feldstein.
- Takes care of their adopted daughter, Duff.
- Taylor calls her “Jase.” Wylie falls out of love with Taylor and falls for Stuart.
- Jase spots Sukhwinder, the man that killed Prakash
- She flees New York for Iowa
- Bud begs for Jane to tell him she loves him, but she doesn՚t respond.
- Taylor tries to convince Jase to come with him to California
- She follows Taylor and Duff to the car, whispering “Watch me re-position the stars,” to the astrologer.
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