The novel ends in the present, when at a local celebration called “La Noche de los Muertos,” Eric encounters a ghost from the past and sees his own path into the future. As in her earlier works, in The Zigzag Way<span> Anita Desai has again demonstrated her mastery of her craft and her understanding of human nature.</span>
<u>The zigzag path the author wanted to review the past, the present, and imagining the future reach the understanding of human nature</u>.
<u><em>And the title has a lot to do with the work, because a zigzag is something that comes, and goes, and is the same as it has shaped in different parts of the novel going to the past, present, and future</em></u>.
