Pratap Character Analysis in A House for Mr Biswas

’s older brother, who works in the cane fields from a young age and never learns to read. When the neighbors raid his family’s garden looking for ’s buried money, Pratap wants to attack them, but his mother, , holds him back. Later, he ends up relatively well-off and shelters Bipti in the sturdy where he lives with his wife and children.

Pratap Quotes in A House for Mr Biswas

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Mr Biswas never went to work on the estates. Events which were to occur presently led him away from that. They did not lead him to riches, but made it possible for him to console himself in later life with the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, while he rested on the Slumberking bed in the one room which contained most of his possessions.

Related Characters: Mr Biswas, Bipti, Raghu, Pratap, Prasad

Page Number and Citation: 23

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