t Raman is a good man who wants more than anything else to please others.
Raman also gains sympathy because he is conflicted about his own career. For example, "he speculated sometimes what he would do for a living if everyone adopted the boardless notion. They might engage him to inscribe gossip or blackmail on public walls; do it on the command of one and rub it off on the command of another" (Narayan, 14). Raman recognizes that he lives in a world that is "money-mad" (Narayan, 14). He also recognizes that he lives in a narrow world in which gossip shapes virtually every set of human relatio
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