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This Blessed House was written by Jhumpa Lahiri. It is a short novel about two characters named Sanjeev and Twinkle. Sanjeev and Twinkle had just gotten married after only knowing each other for four short months. The character development in this novel comes from the personality clashes between both characters. Sanjeev is the very organized and detail oriented person, while Twinkle is a free spirit who cares very little about a “scheduled life”. Twinkle finds herself noticing all the differences between the two of them first when her religious relics are placed on the mantel. Although the many details described by Lahiri is important, the details set the stage for the bigger picture. This story has many points and themes that run wild throughout the novel. The two main ones that I see are about control and accepting flaws. I think control can come in many forms. People like Sanjeev try to control their life through organization. But Twinkles form of control was to actually let go, and let happen. I am not exactly sure which is right, but than again maybe there is no right. Maybe people are suppose to be able to find their form of control and interpret it how they may. I guess this is where the difference in personalities comes into play. If two people come together with two different ways of “controlling” their life, there is unavoidably going to be conflict. I think the moral Lahiri was trying to say is that maybe there is not a right or wrong way to be, but the right or thing is how you handle a clash of personalities. If we as people love the people that we are interacting with, we should be able to control the way we control in order to accept their flaw.