Transformation and Redemption in R.K. Narayan’s “The Guide”

R.K Narayan’s, ‘The Guide’ published in 1958, portrays the voyage of a man from a trickster to a pure soul devoid of sins. The novel precisely highlights the banal life of his characters and engages the reader throughout. ‘The Guide', became the first novel winning 1960 Sahitya Akademi Award for English. Here, the article tends to illustrate how a selfish swindler, an adroit actor and a perfidious megalomaniac transforms himself in the end. Time is a slut and it teaches one how to handle oneself after being screwed. The story forfeits the metamorphosis Raju underwent after the mort of his father. The metaphor of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly encapsulates with Raju.