Explanation and Analysis—Mrs. Croft and the Mother:
In “The Third and Final Continent,” Mrs. Croft and the narrator’s mother act as foils for each other. Specifically, Lahiri juxtaposes the narrator’s mother's fragility in the face of her husband’s death with Mrs. Croft’s resilience in the same situation. The following passage—which comes just after the narrator learns that Mrs. Craft is 103-years-old—captures the moment in which the narrator contrasts the two women in his mind:
I was mortified. I had assumed Mrs. Croft was in her eighties, perhaps as old as ninety. I had never known a person who had lived for over a century. That this person was a widow who lived alone mortified me further still. It was widowhood that had driven my own mother insane.
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