Self-Confrontation in Arun Joshi’s “The Foreinger”

Abstract

In his novel The Foreigner Arun Joshi portrays a world where man is
confirmed by the self, feeling fractured and fragmented under the burden of many
unanswered questions and unresolved dilemmas related to human existence. Living in
an era of rampant materialism and individualism, his protagonists are unhappy people.
Their material prosperity, academic achievements and hedonistic life-style fail to lead
them to state of Peace within and calm around. Sindi Oberoi is lonely, anxious,
depressed and dependent person who is painfully aware of the “mess they are in, “and
is oppressed with the “sadness of living. “ In this struggle for survival he find himself in
a wilderness where, as Yeats would describe it,
The things fall apart
The centre cannot hold?
All order is gone out of their life. There is no ‘plan, no peace; nothing
to keep them within the pattern of everyday living. (1)