Long Silence Of Shashi Deshpande Short Story

The predicament ofJeeja, the house-maid and her granddaughter Tara uncovers their povertystricken lives. Tara is offered at the age considered reasonable by herparents, not wanting to know enough about alternate particulars of theboy who resemble some other man. The fundamental concentration is on Jaya who is thenarrator-hero of this novel. Regardless of the sensitive swings ofmood, euphoria and depression, the anguish of the storyteller hero Jaya, ahousewife and a fizzled essayist she is dependably at the noiseless level. Thisheart-wringing hush of Jaya truly exasperates the reader. The questionof her character frequents her so fanatically that she neglects to locate her 'self '.

Her feminine problem is communicated in her swaying

Jaya is a present day lady established in convention, though her husband, Mohan, is a traditionalist established in traditions. The distinction between their standpoints is great to the point that they bomb, over and again, to see each other. To Mohan, lady sitting before the fire, sitting tight for her better half to get back home and eat hot sustenance is the genuine "quality" of a lady, however Jaya deciphers it as simply gloom. The distinction in their state of mind is the fundamental driver of their inability to see each other.

That Long Silence of Shashi Deshpande presents the he narrative of Jaya and Manohar, who live respectively as a couple in spite of their desperate mentality towards a portion of the central issues of life.

That Long Silenceis “a muted and essentially sympathetic treatment of the problems of marital relationships maintaining a credible balance between sexes” (p.255, The Second Sex). Jaya, the protagonist, is sufferer appropriate from her adolescence days, which proceeds even after marriage. She supported disgrace since she couldn 't react and respect the established music of Paluskar and Faiyaz Khan like her dad. Her grandma has constantly scolded her for her curious nature and further forewarned her colloquialism that “for everything question for everything a retort what husband can be comfortable with that?” (p.5, That Long Silence). She is further forewarned that “a husband is like a sheltering tree” (p.137) and that “the happiness of your

The family tree portrayed by her paternal Uncle Ramukaka: “Look Jaya, this is our branch. This is our grandfather -your Vasuand me. And here are the boys -Sridhar, Jaanu, Dinakar, Ravi...”(p.142). Jaya exclaims, “I am not here!”(p.143). He was answered rudely. “How can you be here? You don’t belong to this family! You’re married; you’re now part of Mohan’s family.”(p.143). In any case, she was not found in Mohan’s family tree either. “Generally, a woman’s identity is defined in terms of her relationship with man as a daughter, a wife and a mother it means virtually a woman doesn’t have an identity of her own”, says Indira Kulkshreshtha.(p.4, Women in the novels of Shashi Deshpande). Shashi Deshpande in all her novels raises her solid voice of challenge the male ruled Indian culture and against man-made principles and traditions. In an interview with Vanamala Vishwanath she confesses that “only a woman could read my books - they are written from the inside, as it were.”(p.9A Woman’s World…. All