The Treatment of Bibi Haldar

1. I think that Bibi suffers from hypertension. Hypertension is a desease where strokes accur often. I think her so called "attacks" are strokes. Her "attacks are described as, "Bibi fell to the footpath. She shook. She shuttered. She chewed her lips"(page 167).

2. After many suggestions of how to cure her, one doctor proposed that what Bibi needed was a husband or marriage. The text says, "It was there, after performing a series of blood tests, that the doctor in charge of Bibi's case, exasperated, concluded that a marriage would cure her" (page 161).

3. Well the first thing the narrator does is "argue in favor of finding a husband"(page 163). The narraor concludes that it's what Bibi has wanted all along. Then they began to coach Bibi in wifely ways. They taught her to not frown all the time, and to converse with men. They also combed her hair, changing her part, they "powered the down over her lips and throat, penciled definition into her brows, and walked her to the banks of the fish pond" (page 167).

4. Bibi Haldar gets pregnant and gives birth to a baby boy.

5. Bibi and Boori Ma are very similar in that they are sort of outcasts in society. They are both very unclean in a sense and live very poor lives. They each have their own difficult struggles. Boori Ma's being that she is mostly lonley and tells stories often of a past utopia which she claimed she wonse lived in. And Bibi's being that she has a desease that they can't find the cure to. They are both considered unatractive and lonley.