Comparison of the narrator and Olivia

The two woman, Olivia and the narrator, have many differences, but also some things in common. Olivia is a distant relative of the narrator. Both woman are English and go to India. One of them, because of her husband, being an British administrator there, and the other one, because she wants to retrace the steps of Olivia. Because the narrator wants to retrace the steps of Olivia, she goes to the same town and sees the same houses. But it is another time and thus the houses are not anymore what they have been once, so there is a little difference. Olivia never really got in ccontact with the Indians themselves, their culture, religion and way of living. By contrast the narrator gets much in ccontact with the Indian population. She gets good friend with her landlords mother and also the midwife Maji. Getting in ccontact with them, she also gets in ccontact with their culture, religion and whole way of living. The naturally consequences of that is, that she also learns Hindu. She doesn´t only learn it, because she is in ccontact with Indian people, but also because she really wants to learn the language. Olivia in contrast only has ccontact with the other English couples being there and thus she only speaks English. Moreover she doesn´t want to learn Hindu or anything Indian. The narrator experiences a change. She, after some time living in India, gets more like the Indian people. But I don´t think that there also is a change in Olivia´s personality. Both of the women get pregnant. And both of the pregnancies pose a problem. Olivia´s baby is from the Nawab, and not from her husband Douglas and the narrators baby is from her landlord Inder Lal, who has a wife and children. Both reactions towards the pregnancies are nearly the same, what I think is not unusual. Both of them think about an abortion and also both start one, but the narrator gets sure while the massage, that she wants to have the baby, and thus she stops the abortion. In contrast Olivia has the abortion and thus doesn´t get the baby. Olivia never returned to England. She lives in a house, the Nawab has bought for her and lived there the last years of her life. The narrator goes to the house, where Olivia has spend her last years of life. The reader doesn´t get to know if the narrator returns to England some time, but it´s probable, that she also never returned.