1. On Being Excellent
The maintenance of conservative community cohesion and a stable family life were regarded as desirable goals, one "more important than love-. ... She is selfless and stoical, loving her limited scoop accepting her family's intrinsic imperfections. Her relationship with her husband is based on compromise and forgiveness as well as love, as her willingly principles has permitted her to understand and not judge her adulterous spouse and accept her self-seeking daughter. ... Ironically when Kate is struck with cancer, Ellen assumes all the domestic duties that her mother loved, as George...
The maintenance of conservative community cohesion and a stable family life were regarded as desirable goals, one "more important than love-. ... She is selfless and stoical, loving her limited scoop accepting her family's intrinsic imperfections. Her relationship with her husband is based on compromise and forgiveness as well as love, as her willingly principles has permitted her to understand and not judge her adulterous spouse and accept her self-seeking daughter. ... Ironically when Kate is struck with cancer, Ellen assumes all the domestic duties that her mother loved, as George...
The heart of my husband's trust, honesty, and love. ... The virtuous woman in me is one who strives for excellence, balance and self-love. ... I think she is kind, benevolent, and selfless. ... Things such as giving all the time and when I am in need and not given to, my feelings becomes hurt, wishing and hoping that I would be like/love by everyone and when it does happen, I become disappointed. ...
Only after the children are raised and married off does a woman begin to enjoy the fruits of love " from the children, now parents themselves, who gratefully realize what she gave them, and from a husband whose years if not his attitudes force him into co-dependence as his body gets frail and tired. ... Indian womanhood and all its facets are portrayed significantly in Kamala Markandaya's novel 'Nectar in a Sieve'.This image of the unsullied, selfless Indian woman is primary in this novel. ...