Ending of The Post Office

Amal is the protagonist of the play Dakghar (The Post Office)

written by Rabindranath Tagore. The play is divided into two
acts. The first act presents the character of a restless,
imaginative, ailing boy who is suffering from an unknown
disease. He always has an urge to go outside, but he is
prohibited to do so. Amals foster-father Madhav obeys the
doctor, so he has to stay indoors all the time. Perhaps Amal
cannot make out to cherish the outer world physically, but his
thoughts are always opposited to being confined.
Amal meets with many people- the Dairyman, the Watchman,
Grandfather or Gaffer, the village Headman, troop of boys and
of course, the flower girl Sudha.
Amal wants to be like
everyone he interacts. He has not seized his desires into any
mere limitations. Soon when he comes to know about Kings
post office, his wanderings seem to get a specific direction.
Amals wait for the Kings letter begins after he heard about
Kings post office being built near his house.
The act two begins with Amal lying in bed. His disease has
reached its worst condition. Then is seems that he is missing
the persons whom he do interacted while his early times behind
the window. His nature is developing changes as his health
does. At this point, His guardian Madhav becomes helpless and
blind-affectionate like everyone but Gaffar. Perhaps here the
relationship between Amal and Gaffar Is introduced as a
contrast with other ones. Gaffar is the only person who has the
right wave length to establish a thorough relationship with Amal
on the level of imagination and intuition. This is contrasted with
Madhavs helplessness and blind affection, with the physicians
indifference, with the Dairymans suggested sympathy and with
the Headmans aggressive destructiveness. Gaffar, like Madhav
and the physician, is full of concerns for Amals impending
death, although Amal on his part is completely unaware of it
and takes it only a matter of course. When the Royal Physician,

the messenger of the almighty King, comes at last scene and

asked Amal if he could leave his bed and meet the King when
he would come at his middle watches of night, amal replied
positively with excitement as he is dying to meet the King.
The flower girl sudha also appeared at the scene. She brought
flowes for Amal as she has promised before. Here, one can
assume that the spirit of innocence overtakes the human lust.
Sudha, who was taught to take money exchanging flowers,
appeared with the same in spite of knowing that she could not
get money from Amal.
The play is ended with Amals never-breaking sleep spreads on.
Apparently, this is death for Madhav, doctor and others, but it
may deceive. The phenomenon has its own meaning actually.
For Amal, it is the journey towards the point where human
meets the divine. He emancipates from the world of pain and
anxiety and awakes in the world of spiritual freedom.