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Synopsis Blame it on the day is a story about the ordinary life of an ordinary girl, and the story is narrated through her own voice. The story slips into psychological, spiritual, and philosophical dimensions explored through the simple life and experience of Clara. Clara herself is an epitome of humans in general. Too, in general, Blame it on the day can be described as a cocktail of themes, as life often is. In one hand Clara tries to find herself in a world of continuous change and ideology, and vehemently tries to salvage her own sense of self, and indeed how to make sense of all that is happening around her. Clara is a capricious but introspective girl, a 'would be' actress, who tries to deal with and understand the world and the people around her. The story too presents Clara as a multi-dimensional character. She is zany yet profound, unmistakably, she is an emotional and a naive character that experiences the world through the windows of emotion, and finds herself in awkward situations because of her own volatility and sensitivity. As a child, she experiences what it feels like to be without control, having witnessed the break-up of her parent's relationship. The story begins with the divorce of her parents whom she knew loved each other very much. She is a little relieved about the separation, yet she desires to see her parents together. Her mother in particular suffers from the break-up and Clara is heartbroken for her since it was equally clear to her that her mother still passionately loved Ray, her father. Ray is a flirt and meanwhile finds himself in a lot of relationships, none of which he could sustain. Clara scorns Ray for making her mother feel the way she did. She begins to question love and relationship. Is it more than love? Does love alone turn in on itself? She vows not to be like her feeble mother. When she and her mother moves from their family home, at the age of 8, Clara meets Robert who takes on the father role in her eyes, and through hi