On his release from prison, Raju stops to rest near an abandoned temple, where a villager named Velan mistakes him for a holy man. But he spends money extravagantly, and is tricked by Marco into forging Rosie’s signature for a package of her jewels, a mistake that earns him a two-year prison sentence. Raju encourages Rosie to resume her career as a dancer, and becomes her manager, launching her on a successful career as an interpreter of Bharat Natya, the classical dance of India. Raju’s mother moves out of their house, and the house is claimed to pay off his debts.
He also loses his mother’s respect because he is living with a married woman.
He is so obsessed with Rosie that he forgets his business, falls into debt, and loses his shop at the railway station. When Marco discovers that Raju and Rosie have become lovers, Marco abandons her and returns to Madras. While Marco is away studying cave paintings, Raju falls in love with Rosie.
Rosie and Marco quarrel constantly, and Marco remains cold and aloof toward Rosie. She wants to see a king cobra dancing Marco wants to study cave paintings. Rosie and Marco engage Raju’s services as a tourist guide, and he takes them sightseeing. Marco is a scholar and anthropologist, who is more interested in his research than in his young wife Rosie. He meets Rosie, a beautiful dancer, and her husband, whom Raju nicknames Marco, because the man dresses in a thick jacket and helmet as if undertaking an expedition, like Marco Polo. Raju, the central character, grows up near a railway station, and becomes a shopkeeper, and then a resourceful tourist guide. The novel is told through a series of flashbacks. Narayan’s novel, The Guide, as in most of his novels, is Malgudi, a fictional town in southern India.
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