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commercialization. The design of love is formed between the wife of another man and the stranger in the form of the railway guide.

Rosie is spiritually mature like Maya. She is the daughter of a Devadasi but she is glamour embodied. She represents the west and through her the novelist has tried to show how unfit she is for the east.

With all her liberalism and independent mind, she is nowhere. She is neither a pure artist nor a pure woman nor an ideal wife. Just like Raju, she too is commercialized and forgets that the real art lies in the concealments and silent worship and not in commercialization and publicity. She is a girl of modern stuff.

Society and Love love in the novel has been presented from the point of view of Indian society. There is no ruthless presentation of sex in the novel. The treatment of sex in the novel is quite different from the treatment of D.H. Lawrence and Somerset Maugham.

What happens between Raju and Rosie inside the room is hinted. The act of sex is not described.

This is the beauty of R.K. Narayan.

The emotions are overridden by the external facts of life. The shifts are in the value of Indian point of view. R.K.Narayan sends the message very clearly that sex and illicit love are responsible for the downfall of Raju and also Rosie.

The moral degradation has been very well shown. The novelist wants to suggest that the characters reap the wages of sin.

The Radical view of marriage.

The novelist has taken a radical view of the subject. Though, Marco and Rosie are artist, one is a writer and another is a dancer, they lack Mutual understanding.When the husband comes to know wife‘s infidelity, he leaves her. Their marriage is social institution which should naturally frozen at the trespassing elements. This perhaps is the reason that Marco feels happy when he comes to know Raju‘s imprisonment.

The realistic treatment of Love, Sex and Marriage All Love, sex and marriage are treated by R.K.Narayan realistically. Love rises and falls. Sex and illicit love-it is full of passion and initiative on the part of the hero. He plays the cards well in putting Rosie under his debt which facilitates the task of completing the game. After the passion is over, we have a sort of pathos, a sort of anticlimax.

Modern and Traditional The treatment of love, sex and marriage in the novel is both modern and traditional. It is modern because Marco and Rosie are living separately for some time. This is one of the evils of modern age where marriages are breaking. R.K.Narayan is hitting that aspect of life. It is traditional because R.K.Narayan shows the importance of passionate love. Love between husband and wife should be passionate. This aspect is missing between the two.