A comment on 'Mama and Mammon'

Prof. Rajendra Pandian writes:

The apparent state of Scorpius strikes a vague parallel with that of the ‘large insect’ in Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”. The man-turned-scorpion’s ability to laugh through the predicament is laudable that makes him different from Kafka’s man-turned-pest. The anger that lies beneath the wry humor of the satirical prose is of no less gravity than the existential angst that the novella exudes. Besides punning with words such as Maman and Mammon his verbalization of a cynical disgust for today’s social institutions in our midst that are littered with these Mamans and Mammon worshippers is brilliant. The ‘quiet moving away of the boys’ in the end and the ‘quick climbing of the brute on the tree trunk for safety’ heighten the dread that pervades the present. Bravo!

PS: A more measured diction may add up to the splendor of the pen.