An Astrologer's Day by R.K.Narayan
‘An Astrologer’s Day’ is a story about a man who runs away from home and pretends to be an astrologer after imagining that he has committed a murder. But ironically, he runs into the same man he was running away from. The author has used a simple language to throw light upon the life of lower class Indians. It shows how fate changes the life of a man dramatically. The incredible twist in the end when the ‘murdered man’ meets its ‘murderer’ ensures that the reader keeps turning the pages. When the end arrives there is not just a sense of relief alone but also a sense of simple astonishment that is breathtaking. All the elements of the suspense have been linked properly. There is a sense of appreciation for the astrologer as he got rid of his enemy cunningly. This is a fine suspense story. Summary : In the present story, he depicts an astrologer with his ironic fate. Here the astrologer is man who had run away from his village and settled with his wife and a child in the town....