Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story, “Sexy”, offers a fresh take on the age-old tale of the cheating husband and his mistress. Typically, these kinds of stories pan out in a few predictable ways. The husband will learn his lesson, the wife will find retribution, and the mistress will regret her actions. Yet none of these outcomes … Continue reading Jhumpa Lahirir’s “Sexy” Read more →

If the tea leaves in the bottom of my cup are to be believed,  the reason we read Sexy by Jhumpa Lahiri was to provide a glimpse into that dreadful and excruciating world before the advent of the internet, when there was legwork involved in learning and research entailed an actual quest for information. Miranda, […] Read more →

When it comes to Digital Humanities, we talk about the importance of finding patterns, and this is a particularly important skill when it comes to life in general. Sometimes we stop and think to ourselves, “Maybe this affair that I’m… Continue Reading → Read more →

Opposites attract, and then slowly pull apart. This is a saying that is depicted in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Sexy”. In this story, we are introduced to Miranda, a young American woman who becomes involved with a married Indian man named Dev. One aspect that I felt jumped out to me was the fact that much of […] Read more →

Not only was I surprised to see the word “Sexy” written on the class syllabus, but was also initially confused as to how this provocative story relates to Digital Humanities. Through intertwining stories about extra marital affairs, Lahiri offers a psychological exploration of modern characters. Using simple language, Lahiri effectively captures the universality of loneliness […] Read more →

While working through the assigned readings by Stephen Ramsay, I came by many interesting points. It seems that Stephen Ramsay holds digital humanists to a very high standard, hence his repetitive association of them to “the cool kids” (Ramsay 2). The tone in his essays seemed comical, as he cracked jokes at the beginning of … Continue reading Stephen Ramsay and Digital Humanities Read more →

What struck me the most as I read Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story, “Sexy,” was the juxtaposition of Miranda and Laximi’s cousin, as it shows the selfish reality of affairs. Miranda, a somewhat lonely young woman in Boston is cured of temporary boredom by having an affair with the married man, Dev. Laximi’s cousin is in Continue Reading Read more →

“Sexy” by Jhumpa Lahiri follows Miranda as she immerses herself in both Indian culture and as a mistress of a married man. Miranda strikes me as a rather vacant person to start: she’s woefully ignorant of geography, almost apathetic of her colleague’s family troubles, and eager to start a relationship with a married man. However, she […] Read more →

After reading it twice, I found Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Sexy” to be a very disturbing story. As we discussed, for this class we are looking for patterns and “screwing around”. So I decided to go back and find the main instances I was “disturbed” (I’m defining “disturbed” as finding something so exceptionally weird/gross that I had to pause and think about… Read more →

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When I first read the title of this week’s subject “mapping digital humanities”, I couldn’t have guessed that we would be reading about actual maps. As someone who is being exposed to digital humanities for the first time, the idea presented by Moretti that a map can serve as a way of understanding a literary … Continue reading Reading Response 01/20/2015 Read more →