Parker depicts a woman who is thrust into a silent dread by a shameless, dancing man who bounces over to ask her to join him. ... The woman is perplexed by the letter and begins to pace back and forth in her mind about its origin and final intentions, while youthful memories spring forth one by one, testing the steel safe in which she keeps them. ...
The lived experience of the aunt is blame which leads her to silent her "inseminators" name and commits suicide to escape the harsh experience of blame and humiliation to the village people and herself. ... It is held within ideology, but also manages to distance itself from it, to the point where it permits us to "feel" and "perceive" the ideology from which it springs" (Eagleton 18). ...
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 ...