Character of Mohan in the story Selvi by R. K. Narayan.

 In R. K. Narayan’s Story ‘Selvi’, Mohan was the husband of Selvi. He was such a man who always ran after financial profit. It was seen that for his own sake, he separated his wife for her mother, brother. Previously Mohan was a studio photographer by profession. Later, for his own financial sake and taking the opportunity of Selvi’s family’s poverty, he manages Selvi in marriage. After marriage, gradually he began to isolated Selvi from her family as well as from rest of the world. He knew very well that Selvi being a renowned singer in the only source of his income. So, he always tried to keep her under his clutch as a hand’s doll. He never gave Selvi any opportunity to express her emotion, words, thoughts. He always instructed her to perform any work and she did all that like an automaton. He changed Selvi so much that even Selvi did not utter a single word without his permission or without his scripted words. Even Mohan selected the songs of Selvi for the concerts. Mohan was also a financial expert. He always though over financial profit. He did not want Selvi to be a cheap down-to-earth singer. So, he rejected so many concerts’ offers. He also kept good relation with high profile society, newspaper editors to gain his own profit. He knew the trick to maintain the status of Selvi as a divine singer. 

      But at the very end of the story, it is seen that due to Selvi’s mother death, Mohan lost his control over Selvi and Selvi did not return with him from her mother’s house and Mohan abused her even wanted to break her neck. So, it was clear that Mohan knew only profit and without profit, his real entity got revealed.