Issue of Identity Crisis and Mental Agony: A Study of Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai

Pages:56-57
Amandeep Kaur (Department of English, Monad University, Hapur, UP)

A sensitive and conscious writer like Anita Desai seems to grapple with the identity crisis which arises out of ill-matched marriages in her works. She employs her writings as a vehicle to probe into women’s lives and experiences. Although she is preoccupied with the theme of incompatible marital couples yet we come across different kinds of women characters many studies have come out on the subject. Many critics have address themselves to the theme of broken marriage and ill-matched couples in her novels butthis does not mean that her exploration of feminine psyche ends here. Besides the hypersensitive types verging on neuroticism, we also have several other kinds. Such characters may be minor ones in her novels but they represent woman’s mind and psyche in its varied moods and nuances.