The Big City

Plot Summary

After her husband loses his job, a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.

husband wife relationship

mother-in-law

money

calcutta

lipstick

new job

parent-in-law child-in-law relationship

criterion

working woman

salesgirl

family disapproval

understated

compassionate

earnest

melodramatic