There is no doubt in the dictum of what the French critic Buffon asserted long ago: “le style est l home meme” (“le style est l home meme” (“le style est l home meme”) style is the man himself). Although this saying has become a cliché in the field of 21st century English studies, it nevertheless finds resonance in Upmanyu Chatterjee. Generally, literature students begin their respective English studies at graduate and postgraduate levels with Francis Bacon who happens to be the most economical writer so far (with respect to word placement and syntactic pattern ) in English literature. Keywords: Protagonist, waffle, lower middle class familiesThe following passage emphatically shows the climactic ending of the novel:- “Jamun is aware that Shyamanand's letter does not give a complete picture of life at home. If he phones Burfi in his office, for example, he risks being shot while explaining how devilishly difficult their father was. Jamun is upset that Shyamanand is unhappy, but he is also upset by his own guilt and by the selfish and emotional demands his family members make of each other, even in their absence. He is also saddened by how quickly his mother's foreshadowing – regarding Shyamanand's misery after her death – comes true; at times, he hates both his parents, one dead, the other dying, for continually forcing him to choose between them; always, in their weaning of their sons from each other, Shyamanand (as in the letter to Jamun) and Urmila have both consciously or semi-consciously lied to them, or at least withheld bits of truth from them . »14 Rightly asserted by Firdaus Kanga in “The Tribune” that “Chatterjee is a ruthlessly gifted observer. Basically, the novel is about family disruptions and the senseless arrangements of a family. Although...... middle of paper ......ar, Boria, 'The Hindustan Times', January 24, 2001, P.-06.18. Chatterjee, Upmanyu, “The mammaries of the welfare state”, Penguin Books, London, 2000, P.-05.19. Ibid. P.–14.20. Ibid. P.–26.21. Ibid. P.–305.22. Ibid. P.–323.23. Iyer, Sharda “Colonial consciousness and racial conflicts in the novels of Upmanyu Chatterjee”, Swaroop and Sons, New Delhi, 2005, P.–61.24. Chatterjee, Upmanyu, “The mammaries of the welfare state”, Peguin Books, London, 2000, P.–324-325.25. Ibid. P.–345.26. Ibid. P.–437.27. Chatterjee, Upmanyu, “Weight loss”, Penguin India, 2006, P.–04-05.28. Ibid. P. –19-20.29. Ibid. P.–10:30 p.m. Naik, MK “Quest for Identity in Upmanyu Chatterjee's Weight Loss”, Indian Writing in English: Past and Present, (ed.) Amar Nath Prasad, Swaroop and Sons, New Delhi, 2004, P. –56.31. Chatterjee, Upmanyu, “Weight Loss”, Penguin India, 2006, P..–416.