A Father by Bharati Mukherjee -- Summary and Analysis
Summary Mr. Bhowmick wakes up early for work and his wife with him to make him breakfast. His agnostic wife works for an insurance company. His daughter, 26, is an electrical engineer. He is sorry he can't afford a whole room like his mother had in Indian for worship but he took woodworking classes and built a shrine for the family goddess Kali-Mata (and the goddess herself I think). His wife complains that he prays so much that he doesn't have time for all the Indian activities they do, and that he prays to shut her out. She reads psychology magazines and feels he doesn't share enough. She and his daughter were more American somehow. They were right, he didn't want to talk about the sickness he felt that was not of physical origins. He felt that there was something in the dark that could make things happen which his wife would dismiss as paranoia. He thinks the statue of Kali changes on its own. Husband, wife and daughter nag each other over breakfast and discuss techn