Interpreter of Maladies

I thought the premise of this story was rather entertaining in a way. Its not that I enjoyed the pain that the character suffered, it was the overall plot line that was attention getting. The story of a man from the native culture observing those from America who appeared like they belonged, but acted so radically different was intriguing alone. Then, by adding Mr. Kapasi's conflict, another level of complexity was added to the story and more depth was evident. Seeing the similarities and differences in cultural beliefs between the two sides was really interesting to me. However, I also enjoyed the fact that the story focused on Mr. Kapasi and the background of his life in order to give more emotion to the story as a whole. Altogether, the different story threads wove together to create an informative yet attention getting short-story. The way everything fit together helped to keep my attention as well as to give adequate detail so that questions over their past lives were not often left unanswered.