The Condition of the Underprivileged People in Puthumaippithan's Short Stories

Abstract

It is the writer Puthumaippithan who, through his writings, displayed the various kinds of tribulations in the world, the real-life messages of man, etc. In his works, Puthumaippithan highlighted social miseries, hunger, misery, small amounts of happiness, the pain of the real man, the love of the poor, economic difficulties, the oppression of the oppressed, the economic inequalities faced by the middle class, the poverty of the socially marginalized, etc. It was the writer Puthumaippithan who innovated in the field of short stories and outlined the complexities of human life and material difficulties in his works. From the reader's point of view, it appears that he has recorded the characteristics of poverty in great depth through his writings from various angles. Murugadoss struggling to spend a day, Maruthi who is oppressed in the grip of poverty and caste, Vellachi who yearns to learn writing, Brahmanayagam Pillai, a poor worker who wants to save his wife, etc., are some of the storytellers who have brought out the problems of economic marginalization and the lives of the downtrodden through his works. This study has been conducted based on some of the works of the author.