Write a critical note on the plot construction in Untouchable

And the Mahatma asked for the deflation of those clever tricks, which had made the expression of concrete detail into a deliberate effort at style.

Out of two hundred and fifty pages, hundred and fifty were left.

Observing the three Aristotelian unities, though unconsciously, the novel records a day’s events in Bakha’s life which serve as a mirror to 4he pathetic condition of the untouchables who form the lower stratum of society in the caste-ridden orthodox Hindu society, especially in the pre-Partition times.

The novel begins with an autumn morning in Bakha’s life. He is in bed, half-awake. “covered by a worn-out greasy blanket, on a faded blue carpet which was Spread on the floor, in a corner of the cave-like, dingy, dark, one-roomed mud-house.” (U, p. 10) It is so early that the sun has not risen.