Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story a temporary matter’s meager dialogue helps illustrate how important it is to appreciate the little things before it is too late. In a temporary matter, the two protagonists, Shukumar and Shoba had just gone through an extremely hard time, being that there “baby died” (Lahiri 2). This pain created a rift in Shukumar and Shoba’s relationship, along with the rolling power outages and differing work schedules led to the two having very few conversations.
The lack of conversations between the two merely added importance and significance to the conversations that did occur. Such as when Shoba advised that Shukumar "[shouldn’t] work too hard," she would say after a minute or two, and head off to bed. It was the one time