The Dialectics of Ageing in Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower

Abstract

The essay is designed to assess the space created for the elderly within an
increasingly capitalistic and neo-liberal fabric of a metropolitan city like Mumbai
by using Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower as a lens. The essay uses the
tools of Literary Gerontology to address society’s treatment of the aged not just
at the microcosmic level, but at a systemic level as well. Its purpose is to look
at systemic inconsistencies and politics of neoliberalism that together create a
discriminatory practice of the treatment of the underrepresented within society, in
this case the aged.