The Family Structure in V.S. Naipaul's Miguel Street

The traditional families presented in Miguel Street are hells of misunderstandings and quarrels while the non-conventional families are made of failures, dreamers and fakes. V.S. Naipaul views his society as alienated, failed and corrupt. He pessimistically captures families with many problems and disintegrated structures. This work is grounded in the New Historicism approach which takes historical situation as an integral part of a work of literature.