Question

What sentiment is mr. kapasi expressing when he wonders, "perhaps they, too, … had little in common apart from three children and a decade of their lives."?

Answer 1

The sentiment in which Mr. kapasi is expressing when he wonders, perhaps they, too had little in common apart from three children and a decade of their lives is marriage, though full of promise, can be also full of disillusionment. The marks he acknowledged from his own marriage where there is the flickering, the difference, the extended silences. Therefore, Mr. kapasi is not only conveying the correlation of Mr. and Mrs. Das at an disappointing level of enactment but side by side, he confesses his own correlation to be facing the same wheel of relationship. It is value to think through the time that they have remained together is no less it is fair sufficient to owe assurance and trustworthiness to each other specially when together are married and had kids. 

Answer 2

In this story, Mr. Kapasi is trapped in a loveless marriage. Moreover, he is unhappy with how his life turned out to be, and is frustrated with his lack of achievements in life. When he meets Mrs. Das, he believes that he has found a potential companion in his loneliness.

Mr. Kapasi wonders in this way when he thinks about the marriage of the Dases. He wonders is Mrs. Das is also in a loveless marriage, and whether she too feels that she shares nothing with her husband besides time and the children. This sentiment expresses the idea that marriage is not always a recipe for companionship. It also conveys the view that marriage, and even daily interaction, does not necessarily lead to intimacy or understanding.