The dowry system has been in place since before the written record and it has been used by parents in every country imaginable, including America in older times. The point of the dowry system was to provide for the bride should something unfortunate occur with her husband such as death or divorce. In “Everything’s Arranged” and “A Question of Dowry”, we can see how dowry is mistreated.
In “Everything’s Arranged”, the dowry is just a bribe. When Rukumani's father heard that his daughter has a relationship with a chinese boy, he increase the dowry. The dowry should not be treated or mistreated as a bribe, but in Everything's Arranged, the name of dowry in Indian culture has gone bad because of that situation.
While in “A Question of Dowry”, the situation of dowry is a bit different because, the grooms cannot be united just because Mr Ramachandran has money for dowry, so the marriage is cancelled. It shouldn't be like that because the use of dowry is not to separate the grooms, but to unite them and in the name of dowry they should unite and together last forever.
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