The Emotional Estrangement in the Select Work of Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock

The focus of this paper is to explore the Indian women’s suffering and psychological turmoil of the female characters in the select novel of Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock. By investigating women’s struggle in the two major spheres in both public and domestic spheres, and also examine the existence of patriarchal ideologies enforced by men in the community. The study mainly focuses on the problem of alienation being faced by the female protagonists. Through her novels Desai peep into the interiors of the human psyche and various forms of isolation and loneliness that assail the characters. And also it brings out the sufferings of female characters who feels alienated, detached, isolated and separated in this modern world. Existentialism is the basic roots of alienation.