The English Teacher
The second reading of the novel The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan was a totally different experience to the first reading. I first read The English Teacher four five years ago, but I was not able to understand Krishna's character and the way his character subtly hints the personality traits which are more or less common to every English teacher in the world. Slighlty timid, too much worrying Krishna shares with his readers ideological beliefs that an English teacher is beqeuathed by default as a person who deals with books and literarature. More surprisingly, his character seems to relate to me in a so personal level which I have not identified at all in my first reading of the novel. Krishna is a romantic husband and proves himself to be a loving, caring husband and father throughout the entire narrative. He quoted Wordsworth to compare the astonishing beauty of his wife with Wordsworth's poetic metaphors and most importantly tries to be romantic as much as possible with h...