Abstract:The immigrant Santosh,the protagonist in Naipaul’s One Out of Many,features strong loneliness and freedom-seeking desire.Psychoanalytical criticism is employed to interpret the inner world of the character Santosh based on close reading of the text.This would help readers deepen their understanding of Naipaul’s works and enhance the concerns about the psychic world of urban migrants. Abstract: The immigrant Santosh, the protagonist in Naipaul’s One Out of Many, features strong loneliness and freedom-seeking desire. Psychoanalytical criticism is employed to interpret the inner world of the character Santosh based on close reading of the text. This would help readers deepen their understanding of Naipaul’s works and enhance the concerns about the psychic world of urban migrants.