Desai’s Cry the Peacock: A Resonance of Feminine Perspective

Pages:238-240
Nitika Rani (Department of English, Govt College, Hisar, Haryana)

Desai’s greatness as a writer revolves round her achievement in exploring the psyche of her characters. She plumbs the depth of the inner life of Indian women. The rewards are remarkable and deeply enlightening. The probing of the novelist always brings up innumerable conflicts, mostly psychological. Desai has not only depicted these conflicts but also probed the reasons behind them. Even a casual survey of her novels brings out the fact that the existing gender inequality based on money, the dichotomy that exists between the public and private spheres of a woman’s life, the male dominance in society and sex role stereotyping have contributed to the various kinds of conflicts -inter-personal and intra-personal in which the female self is tossed about, beaten, battered and even broken.