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The guide 1 The Guide Plot Summary R K Narayan's novel The Guide is the story of a man named Raju who comes from a small village in India called Malgudi Malgudi itself does not exist This fact gives Narayan's novel the feeling of a fable or fantasy Raju's

The Guide Plot Summary R K Narayan's novel The Guide is the story of a man named Raju who comes from a small village in India called Malgudi Malgudi itself does not exist This fact gives Narayan's novel the feeling of a fable or fantasy Raju's life is predicated on a series of self-deceptions which eventually lead the character down a road of confusion loss of self and then to spiritual transformation and awakening Throughout Raju's life he does his best to be whatever people require him to be at any given moment When he runs a shop in the Malgudi train station he is Railway Raju an extraordinary guide and procurer of all things needed When Raju meets a beautiful dancer named Rosie he becomes her lover and her guide as well by helping Rosie realize her wish to dance professionally When Rosie becomes famous Raju then becomes Raj a man What's In a Name With the exception of James J Malone the American journalist none of the characters' last names are mentioned in the narrative It can be surmised that Malone's entire name is used in an e ?ort to reinforce his position as an outsider In America as well as in other Western nations a person's name is a signi ?er of who one is in society and where one comes from However by not revealing the surnames of the Indian characters in Cthe novel the author is subverting the notion that the name makes the wo man In addition there are several characters who remain unnamed altogether For example Raju's maternal uncle Raju's parents and even the lawyer are never called by name This would reinforce the view that it is su ?cient for the author that the characters know their own names and secondary that the reader does not Style Point of View Interestingly Narayan's novel moves back and forth between ?rst and third person narration with some uidity Also of note is the fact that this shift occurs more than once in several of the chapters This proves challenging for the reader in that the point of view most often shifts according to chronology Moving from past and present and back again is in terms of this narrative a matter of course and the reader becomes aware of the small space between what is and what was In this way the novel closely mirrors what happens automatically in the human mind In the ?rst chapter alone the narration moves between third and ?rst person point of view four times The successive ten chapters also follow this pattern While this constant change of perspective is somewhat vertiginous it nonetheless proves to be more than e ?ective in that the story CObjects Places Malgudi Malgudi is the name of Raju's hometown Although Malgudi is a ?ctional place in the narrative it is situated in proximity to cities and other geographical features which do exist Mempi Peak House The location where Marco stays the Mempi Peak House