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He is sensitive enough to understand when others are hurt, but cannot express this to them. He cannot act against external events, only himself. When his maternal uncle deceives him, he thinks it a sign of his greatness that he does not concern himself with money matters. He tries to rationalise his defects, at the same time withdrawing into an imaginary world failing even to hold on to his job. His life and family is shattered due to his uncompromising character, but he attributes his misfortunes to others, and not to his own flaws.

Paradoxically, when Sitaramrao falls in love himself, marries and has children, he considers this to be unnatural. He is dominated by the former, which deprives him of his commonsense as a result hunger, marriage, procreation and maintaining a family appear to be trivial and mean concerns to him. Sitaramrao's father's death-bed demand that he maintain the prestige of the family is a key point in Sitaramrao's life, causing an inner conflict between the self-aggrandizement which he inherited from his father and the gentler, more sensitive feelings from his mother's side. Sitaramrao inherited megalomania from his father and this theme pervades the novel. Set in an unstated year during the 1940s, the story occurs in an unnamed village in Andhra Pradesh, on its way to becoming a town. The major portions of the narration is a stream of consciousness of the protagonist, Sitaramrao. The following day Ramayya passes by and, on examining the torn bones and scattered flesh there, identifies the mangled body as that of Sitaramrao. His own shadow seems to join with his father and attack him. One day, sitting alone, Sitaramrao cries out 'All is illusion' and walks to the cremation grounds, where he imagines seeing his father rolling his eyes, gnashing his teeth and chastising him as a wastrel.

He visits a prostitute, then challenges a speaker addressing a meeting and is beaten up, whereupon the wise Ramayya takes him to the shelter of a rain tree, and tries unsuccessfully to reason with him so that he might mend his ways and return home. He takes to wandering in bazaars, singing or haranguing passers-by. He drifts into fantasies of becoming a robber and raping a woman. He begins to act strangely, beating in succession his daughter and his wife, and talking to a gecko. Sitaramrao's uncle turns down a request for a loan, replying that Sitaramrao's father had treated him poorly: it was he who built the family's wealth, which Sitaramrao's father had squandered, and in his view, the son was behaving as his father had. On waking, a feeling of irritation provokes him to think that unless life is easy, and lived effortlessly, it is better to die. As one side speaks, the other is veiled, but they both assure him that whatever he hungers after will be provided. One day he dreams of seeing an androgynous figure composed half by the goddess Parvati and half of Paramesvara. He is soon reduced to straightened circumstances, and forced to seek employment, but fails to hold any job. Though The village elder Ramayya cautions him to be careful with his wealth, Sitaramrao, inspired by lofty ideals, pays for a lavish funeral, and arranges for people with large debts to his family to repay only a small proportion. At the start of the novel, Sitaramrao's father on his deathbed commands his son to maintain the family's honour. He comes from a distinguished family, whose grandeur is celebrated. The protagonist of the novel is Sitaramrao. Ramayya – an old man from Sitaramrao's village.Sitaramrao – the protagonist and the scion of a rich family.The principle characters of the novel are:

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