Wee Willie Winky Dialectical Journal
Wee Willie Winky, an underprivileged man who entertains the people of Methwold’s Estate as a clown, is also expectant of child from his wife Vanita, who apparently had an illicit affair with her master William Methwold, who is the biological father of her unborn child. Both the women, Amina and Vanita go into labor pain for straight thirteen days, and precisely at the hour of midnight, each woman is blessed with a son. Perhaps, Mary Pereira who is appointed as a midwife at the nursing home is engrossed with beliefs of her fundamental socialist lover, Joseph D’Costa. In an attempt to please him, she engages herself in a condemnable act wherein she alters the nametags of the both new-born boys, in this manner giving the poor child of Vanita a life full of luxuries while the rich baby boy of Amina is fated to fall under the realms of poverty. This reversal of fortunes is a comment on the way an individual can change his destiny by his own hands. Being guilt ridden, Mary assumes the role of nanny to Saleem the kid for whose prosperous fate she was held responsible for.