Dimple initially believes that marriage “would bringher freedom, cocktail parties on carpet lawns, fund-raising dinners for noblecharities. Marriage would bring her love” (3). A naive daughter of a well-to-doupper middle-class Indian professional, and getting close (by Indian standards)to the age where her marriage prospects seem limited—she’s twenty, afterall—Dimple oscillates between fear and fantasy, constantly worrying about her“sitar-shaped body and rudimentary breasts” (4). Her notions of marriage arerather vague, derived as they are from the exaggerated art of Indian films,movie magazines, and the advice columns in “ladies’ periodicals.” Herhoroscope-matched, arranged marriage by means of the ubiquitous matrimonialadvertisements in ethnic newspapers and magazines insistently signifies thesubordinated, passive role of a daughter brought up to obey male authority. Herfather’s choice for her husband is Amit Basu, an engineer, who has pending“immigration to Canada and US” (14 ). “Marriage,” Dimple believes, “would freeher, fill her with passion. Discreet and virgin, she waited for real life tobegin” (13).
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