2024, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part A

In a centuries-old patriarchal social structure of India, a woman continues to be subservient to a man. Similarly, in Indian literature, female characters are typically coloured as subservient, meek, and passive. In Indian English works, women are portrayed as subjects to rebel against and resist, and this is none other than Bharati Mukherjee. She makes an effort to reinvent herself as a woman who dares to insurge and revolt. She writes about a lady who embodies the resistance and wrangling that start in writing from the Indian diaspora. Numerous strands of the woman-self become apparent in Mukherjee's book Wife, as she experiences alienation and loses her identity. This essay attempts to address the issue of marital adjustment, which gives rise to a number of challenges such identity loss and the behaviours of women in the society of their time. At the same time the article seeks to draw attention to the problems associated with women's migration, including the lack of a home and a sense of self while enduring dual marginalisation as a married woman and an immigrant.