"When she whipped out the hairbrush, the slip of paper with Mr. Kapasi's address on it fluttered away in the wind. No one but Mr. Kapasi noticed." (Page 166)
Responding to Question 4: Discuss the significance of Mrs. Das's requesting, and then losing, Mr. Kapasi's address. Apart from its function in the plot, how does this suggest a resolution to the story?
At the beginning of the story, Mrs. Das was portrayed as a women who could not be bothered with the trivial problems of her husband and her family. The speaker wanted the reader to understand that Mrs. Das was a woman whose life was far from perfect. When Mr. Kapasi wrote out his address for her, he made sure to write neatly, but even then he worried that he had misspelled something or inverted the numbers of his address. This exchange of the address is significant because at that point in the story, Mrs. Das still needed help from a source not directly connected to her life. Mr. Kapasi was that outlet, and she had a physical connection to him in her purse. After she questioned him for advice on her life, she realized that he could not solve her problems. She no longer needed Mr. Kapasi. Therefore, the loss of his address to the wind is significant of his lack of necessity in her life. She didn't need a connection to him anymore.
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