Twinkle

"Sanjeev pressed the massive silver face to his ribs, careful not to let the feather hat slip, and followed her." So reads the last line of Lahiri's short story This Blessed House. Does this line underscore the fact that because Sanjeev has chosen a woman who is ensconced on the kind of pedestal we have for women in Western culture (beautiful, sexy, mysterious, stylish, capricious--see: Julia Roberts, Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, Winona Ryder, to name a few), he is destined to be a servant rather than a master?