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As Margayya was disappointed with the priest and all his methods of deep prayer, he is now in a dire need of an worthy employment for himself. His earlier banking business produces no results, his old customers were reluctant to come near him because they fear he may demand their dues from them. So it was inevitable that his old business is gone forever. Now he is idle and spends much of his time at home. His wife scolds him to do something to cover domestic expenses. After spending much of his fortune on the silly deed on the advice of the priest, he is now left with 25 rupees with rejection from Goddess Lakshmi. It was indignant for him to stay at home all day with numerous visitors coming and going. They ask his wife about her husband not going out to work. Her wife also seems to irritate by his stay and she scolds him for not doing anything. His neighbours took note of his stay and took it for his inability to pay his creditors. After a month, he is left with 10 rupees and has

The novel "The Financial Expert" gives the readers a realistic and detailed picture of the father-son relationship. Margayya and his son Balu share a fraught relationship throughout the novel. From his childhood, Balu was nurtured as a pampered child solely because he was their only child who was begotten to them after a long period of time. Balu was a menace to his parents but his parents adore him. In the beginning, Margayya bowed to all of Balu's demand and envisage a bright future waiting ahead of him. He wanted him to study in the US and marry a judge's daughter. But as Balu grew, Margayya was caught up in his work and couldn't spend his time with him. Balu couldn't excel in his school nor he had any liking towards studies or exams. But Margayya was keen to get him passed through high school despite Balu's reluctance to not studying. That's where their relationship got much strained, Balu has transformed into an adolescent and due to his father&

The poem presents a vivid yet eye-opening description of an elementary classroom in poverty-stricken slums. He gives us an clear imagery of the children living away not just from the luxury of life but also the basic amenities. Through the poem, Spender makes a satire on the system where these children have no bright future The faces of the children sitting in the classroom reflect a bleak picture of their degraded health and undernourishment. As the poet says that these children's faces have a squeezed faces unlike a healthy child's puffy and round face, their hair seems to him "rootless weeds" and their skin is pale due to. sickness. In the classroom, a tall girl seated with her head down, a skinny boy with "rat's eyes" due to undernourishment, another one suffering from a hereditary disease of his father's recites a lesson from his desk. In the classroom marked by the gloomy conditions of these kids, among them is an unusually sweet and young ch