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| | Article Name : | | Depiction of Women in Chitra B. Divakaruni’s
Selected Short Stories | Author Name : | | SHIVALI KHURANA, DR SHIVANI VASHIST | Publisher : | | Bridge Center | Article URL : | | | Abstract : | | Arranged Marriage is a collection of eleven short stories put
together by the Indian American author and poet. The common link
that binds these eleven stories together is that though they have
different issues, they are all related to and are a result of patriarchy.
Though the stories may differ in plots, they all revolve around the same
theme. The protagonist in all the stories is a woman who is, most of the
times, married and settled in a particular arrangement. She is made to
suffer because of the expectations her family has from her and,
comfortable or not, the way she has to meet these expectations. The
focus is on different aspects of marriage, dysfunctional and functional,
as well as abusive and loving. The motive behind writing this stories
was not to make a moral judgment on old traditions, rather was to
present the lived experiences of the modern world . The collection of
stories became very well known for going against the clichés about
arranged marriages along with being a critique for them. The stories
under discussion in this paper, The Bats, Clothes and Silver
Pavements-Golden Roofs revolve around the same theme. | Keywords : | | Depiction of Women, Short Stories |
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