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Analysis Of Wife By Bharati Mukherjee

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In recent years migrant writing has been one of the most popular trends and this creative impulse has consequently given birth to several talented, promising, distinguished authors. Among all these fascinating different voices, Bharati Mukherjee has played an interesting role. It is necessary to contextualize this work and the features, which make it a masterpiece. Published in 1975, it cannot be treated as the typical novel which concerns immigration. The central character of this fictional write-up of Bharati Mukherjee’s novel ‘Wife’ is Dimple. Mukherjee presents this novel of ‘Wife’ in such a way that the reader is left wondering about the attitude that he or she develops towards her. Mukherjee takes us deep into the mind of Dimple as she makes a transition from being single to marrying a husband chosen by her father. It also depicts the transitional situation of living in the familiar surroundings of Calcutta to moving to the so-perceived violent city of New York. As the novel progresses, Dimple is characterized as a young naïve Indian woman, who tries to reconcile the Bengali ideal of the perfect, passive wife with the demands of her new American life. In this story Dimple lacks the inner strength and resources, it takes to cope with in New York city as the young wife in an arranged marriage. Again in this novel, Mukherjee deals with the complications that come from being thrown between two different worlds of reality and illusion. New York leaves her in a state of

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