Interpreter of Maladies- Jhumpa Lahiri

In Jhumpa Lahiri's  Interpreter of Maladies, the central conflict of the story was the agonizing connection between Mrs. Das and Mr. Kappasi. It was also about the Indian society and culture at the time. The expectations of an authentic Indian family was arranged marriages. This posed a serious problem for both of these characters in the short story. Neither were happy with their lives and were not trully in love with their spouses. The majority of this story was about Mr. Kapasi's internal conflict of falling for Mrs. Das. However, in the end of the story, Mr. Kapasi realizes this love could never be and never existed. The conflict was resolved, just not in the way he had played it out in his mind. 

To the last question at the end of the short story, "Has his (Mr. Kapasi) encounter with the Das family created any permanant change in his outlook on life or his view of himself?", I answered yes. This meeting with Mrs. Das made him completely rethink his marriage and love for his wife of many years. The fact that he had already grown so infatuated with her shows that his love for his wife was very fragile and delicate. An example of this is one page 158, "He had never admired the backs of his wife's legs the way he now admired those of Mrs. Das..." The legs of Mrs. Das here don't necessarily mean just her legs. I believe he was insinutating that he had never felt this way of his wife before.I feel that he will always have doubts the rest of his life and will never be the same.