A study of Anita Desai s

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1 A study of Anita Desai s portrays a woman s inner world, her frustrations and sensibility. Her women struggle to find a because for her, writing is an effort to discover, to underline and convey the true significance of things. of their emotional needs, Since

2 convey the fever and fretfulness of the stream of consciousness of her principal characters. There are those who can handle situations and those who can t. And analysis. For her it is depth which is it. By delving deep into the character s psychology, she talks about the complexity of human instinct. To her, passion, revenge, murder or exciting things like love, life (CTP, P.20) or death of Toto, the dog, are the most important things. Gautama is too fastidious to admit such matters overbearingly, spiritual demands of possession and rights won and established. (CTP, P.113). To him love is merely an attachment. The astrologer s prophecy, death to one of you (CTP, P.30) to mobilize her urgency to enjoy life with Gautama and gets disturbed by the distance he coldly keeps from her (CTP, P.9). Maya s expectations from her married life and her desire to enjoy the life to its fullest dream to her as her emotions are throttled by Gautama s over analytical mind. She is forced to shut her emotions in her unconscious. Gautama s practical attitude towards life and age which is almost twice Maya s age widens the distance in their relationshi Thus Maya is totally deprived of the satisfaction from her conjugal life, Telling me to go to sleep while he worked at his papers, he did not give another thought to me (CTP, P.9) Gautama often loses patience with her and calls her a neurotic, a mad woman. Maya s problems are

3 Maya is a childless woman, she is very attached to her dog, Toto. Toto s death leaves her so live. You see, to Gautama it didn t really matter. He didn t care, and I did (CTP.P.215). marital affair with Miss David, the mathematics mistress. Nanda s husband is the indirect the lonely life of Nanda. It is because of his callous and indifferent attitude that Nanda s life is unwelcome intrusion and distraction. Desai has portrayed her lon avoid the postman, Tall and thin in her grey sari, Nanda Kaul fancies as if she had merged into the tree (FOM,P.4). Nanda wants so pity, Discharge me I ve discharged all my duties. Discharge (FOM, P.166) the past brings had wanted her to, like a decorative yet useful mechanical appliance needed for efficient

4 running of his household. She wa Kaul s yearning for privacy and loneliness through the garden at Carignano which is as empty, bare, detached and lonely as Nanda s life in plains. She does not want to plant any tree in the demanding this love, she shows her dependence on others unlike Nanda. When Maya s portrayal of a martyr, a silent sufferer. She is always striving to merge with the pine trees and be mistaken for one. To be a tree, no more or no less, was all she was prepared to undertake. the ugliness. Raka s loveless Childhood has filled her heart with suspicion and distrust pushing Raka s guarded instincts of an explorer, a discoverer (FOM,P.61), she makes an effort to Raka s interest but once again, her efforts go in vain like the earlier times when she had failed to get a positive response from her family for her devotion. She admits before her death that All helped her to sleep at night, they were tranquilizers, pills. (FOM, P.145) Nanda once again longs for love desperately and the need to win Raka s love indicates Nanda, I am always alone. I am never afraid. (FOM, P.138). Anita Desai explores the psyche

5 herself to the world and executes, I m shipwrecked and alone, she clung to a rock alone in my boat on the sea she sang. (FOM, make her ends meet but that does not prevent her from living for others. Nanda s prosperity estroyed by males. Nanda Kaul s ex from the society, while Ila Dass s brothers are the cause of the course of life that she is leading. different age groups. It has been very rightly observed that her forte is the exploration of amoralists.