A Real Durwan: Blog Response

1. Boori Ma mainly mutters her life stories. She starts out by talking about her life struggles such as when she was separated from her husband and four daughters. But she also talks about easier times in her life like her daughter's wedding. She also talks about her former home and how wonderful it was.

2. First Mr. Dalal comes home with two basins. Rumors were spread that he baught Mrs. Dalal two kilos of mustard oil, a Kashmiri shawl, 12 cakes of sandalwood soap and he had filed an application for a phone line. And then Mr. and Mrs. Dalal plan on buying two sheep wool blankets.

3. Upon Mr. Dalals return home with two basins, Mrs. Dalal is upset. She doesn't feel as if she has enough. He had promised her a refrigerater, and she doesn't have it, they don't have a phone and she wants one, and she still cooks on kerosene. She asks Mr. Dalal, "You expect two basins to make up for all that?"

4. At first the wives of the apartments are excited to have running water and a sink. But later, sinse there is only basin in the apartment, they begin to be frustrated in waiting on their turn to use it and they are upset that they can't leave their "stuff" beside the basin. They also become sort of jealous of Mrs. Dalal. She has her own basin and rumors start spreading that all she does is wash her hands in it all day and that her husband has been buying her lots of nice things. So, the wives begin to plan on making the apartment better. They think to themselves, if Mrs. Dalal can do it, why can't we? So they make preparations for improving the apartment.

5. One wife batered a stack of wedding bracelets to get a white washer to freshen the walls of the stairwell. Another sold her sewing machine and got an exterminator. And another went to a silversmith and sold back a set of pudding bowls so she could have the shutters painted yellow.

6. Borrie Ma is tossed out of the apartments along with all of her items. They resisdents of the apartment did this because they were upset that someone stole their basin while Boorie Ma was roming the streets and not doing her job. They were upset because of what they did for her and then she doesn't give back by protecting and watching the gate. The resisdents consult Mr. Chatterjee and what to do about this. And he says that along with all the new renovations to the apartments, they need a real durwan. So the residents throw Boorie Ma out and begin looking for a real durwan.