White Hair
White hair symbolizes the narrator’s father, Daddy’s, fear of growing old and weak. Daddy forces the narrator to pluck the white hairs from his head every Sunday morning, though the narrator’s grandmother, Mamaiji…
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Cricket
Cricket represents the social pressure that the story’s male characters feel to appear tough and masculine, as well as Britain’s colonial influence on Indian culture. The narrator and his Daddy once bonded over playing cricket…
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The Murphy Baby
The Murphy Baby represents the inevitability of aging and decay. At the beginning and toward the end of “Of White Hairs and Cricket,” the narrator takes note of the Murphy Baby mascot on the old…
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The Criterion Stove
The Criterion kerosene stove in the narrator’s apartment represents Britain’s lingering presence and influence in post-colonial India. When the narrator’s Mummy and Daddy get into a disagreement about the British-made Criterion stove in the…
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