Rabindranath Tagore: Short Stories

Present a character sketch of Kadambini.

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The main character in "The Living and the Dead" is a widow who dies suddenly and, just a few hours later, comes back to live. She exists in a liminal space between life and death, obviously present as a person, yet believed by all around her to be a ghost. It’s a tormenting existence, and her second death at the end of the story proves an ironic confirmation that she was indeed alive the whole time.