... of attention, it has been far overshadowed by that accorded to Mistry. His meteoric career cannot then be credited altogether to the exotic nature of the Parsis. Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once ... experience and leaves the individual along with his community defenseless and despairing. As the narrative opens, it moves once more into the familiar milieu of Bombay Parsis, which the earlier short-story collection int...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of attention, it has been far overshadowed by that accorded to Mistry. His meteoric career cannot then be credited altogether to the exotic nature of the Parsis. Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once ... experience and leaves the individual along with his community defenseless and despairing. As the narrative opens, it moves once more into the familiar milieu of Bombay Parsis, which the earlier short-story collection int...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate