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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
In this part of the study, the answers for the problem formulation are explained. This part is divided into two subchapters based on the answers of
the problem formulation. The first subchapter elaborates the depiction of the setting. This subchapter consists of the setting representing the social
condition in the short story towards the accident happening in their life by drawing their life timeline. The setting can be seen in the contexts the story
happens. Understanding these help to make a pattern on how the social condition depicted in the story. The second subchapter deals with the aspects
of postmodernism. This subchapter elaborates the conflicts happened through the social condition in detail, so that it can be used to reveal the aspects of
postmodernism depicted in the social condition in Bharati Mukherjee‟s The
Management of Grief.
A. The Depiction of the Setting in The Management of Grief
Before depicting the social condition of this short story which is stated by Abrams, this undergraduate thesis depicts the setting by using Harmon theory
to show the specific setting before applying Abrams theory which mentions about social circumstances what this undergraduate thesis attempts to find
out. It is because in social circumstances, there are some elements which are place, time, the occupations and daily manner of living of the characters, and
the general environment of the characters. Those elements help to understand how the social condition can be depicted.
Therefore, the setting will be disclosed by applying the theory using the quotations from the short story as the main source of data. To depict the
setting, the life timeline of the story is elaborated. This timeline will explain the contexts and events happened. Besides, it is to show the changing
condition in the story depicting the problem and conflict. It will explain since the grief to the recovery of the characters.
1. Geographical Location
a. Bhave’s House
In the beginning of the short story, it depicts the condition in Bhave‟s house. There are some people who help Bhave to face the grief. Mukherjee
‟s
The Management of Grief 1988: 179 mentioned that
A woman I don‟t know is boiling tea the Indian way in my kitchen. There are a lot of women I don‟t know in my kitchen, whispering, and moving
tactfully. They open doors, rummage through the pantry, and try not to ask me where things are kept.
From the above quotation, it shows that people‟s conversation and activities occur in the kitchen. Besides, it depicts that there are not only
people who lost their families, feel the grief, but also people around them grieving. There are a lot of women, the Sharmas and friends from Indo-
Canada Society are in Bhave‟s house to help and accompany her to face the grief. The condition is chaos and panic. It is because there are people who tell
about the terrorist bombing, and Bhave‟s and another people‟s condition. Besides, there is a woman, as Bhave‟s friend, named Kusum. Kusum is one
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