Comment on the subtlety with which the poet captures the general pattern of communication within a family.

Nissim Ezekiel has tried to picturise the daily common conversational styles in the poem. He speaks of how an Indian family’s evening usually looks like. To make it more realistic, he adds a few incidences that are extremely common. There is the description of a family which consists of three people. The wife is talking about something that the husband listens to but doesn’t pay attention. This is done cause he thinks that the things his wife is talking about are irrelevant. So he just admits that the wife is always right to avoid any further problems. The kid too is seen to be the most influential person in the family since his demands are not neglected by the other two of the family.