The novel, like Trainspotting and Bridget Jones", is another potential cult classic. ... In a personal note to this writer, she adds that the theory "also looks at male stereotypes but always paralleled with the female stereotype." ... She was the classic Feminine Female complementing the classic Masculine Male. ...

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For a long time, the woman has assumed a secondary role in the first generation of Indian English male writing such as R.K.Narayan, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand. Indeed, R.K.Narayan's heroine, Rosie, in his novel 'The Guide' is viewed only in relation to the main protagonist, Raju and Raju's mother is ...

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