The Dark Room Character Analysis

Introduction
‘The Dark Room’ by R.K. Narayan is one of his remarkable works published in 1938, which clearly describes the social inequity in his own way, A middle-class but upper-caste family in his fictional setting of Malgudi and also Narayan’s third novel. It was set against the backdrop of South India. The novel can be considered one of the earliest works of any Indian novelist which deals with the theme of gender equality and women’s rights. this novel brings up the pressures of married life and raises many disturbing questions regarding the institution of marriage also It clearly reflects the readers about position of women, Quest for Individual Identity, Gender inequality in traditional Indian society or one may say created by the Hindu orthodox society in which Man holds the superior position as a Head of the family and women are confined to manage household duties, fulfill the basic needs

Basically, she is confined to the four walls of the house. In this society woman has nothing of her own except her body. In that time of society woman does not have the freedom and liberty to take the decisions on her own. She was totally dependent on the male to take all the decisions even of her life also as she has no identity of her own, just have roles to play in other people lives as a daughter, wife, mother, daughter-in-law, and mother-in-law and so on.
The Dark Room chiefly deals with the predicament of a middle class South Indian woman Savitri, the protagonist who is married to Ramani, an employee worked in an Insurance Company. Ramani is a typical representative of the dominating husband in a patriarchal society whereas on the other hand Savitri as suppressed, ignorant and clamped under the norms set up by the patriarchal society. Narayan depict these women who in the beginning tried to come out of