The Young Couple: Summary

• Cathy and her newlywed husband Naraian move back to India, his home country
• At first everything was going well, there life was good and Naraian was looking for a job
• When Naraian meets up with friends they always talk about how bad their country is run
• On Sundays they would always go to see Naraian’s family who were rich and lived in a large and extravagantly designed house
• Cathy did not enjoy these Sundays and Naraian’s parents would offer him a job in the family business which he would refuse
• Cathy once visited the city bazaar which she enjoyed and the family interrogated her about it
• One night Cathy and Naraian get into an argument about these questionings and the change in their life since they moved there
• Things start to go downhill from there, they start to bicker more often and their home life seems to change for the worse
• This makes Cathy leave the house more often and becomes more rebellious
• Cathy discovers she is pregnant and this makes things appear better between them, she notices the mausoleum out of her window more often
• On the Sundays Naraian’s family start to spoil her and have a smug attitude towards her
• Naraian gets pressured into accepting the offer to work in the family business which makes Cathy miserable and she complains to him, ending in another quarrel
• Things change once again in their life and Cathy slowly becomes more unhappy
• Later the family gets a room ready for them, Cathy confronts Naraian about it resulting in another argument
• “..pointed towards the dome of the mausoleum darkening against a tender flush of a sunset and a formation of birds, wings a-tilt, going round it swift as bats in a flight before plunging down into the trees to settle themselves to sleep.”
• They make up but Cathy is still unsettled about the house