CRY THE PEACOCK, A SAGA OF FEMININE SENSIBILITIES

Abstract

Like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Anita Desai seems to be more interested in exploring the interior world of the female rather than the externals. Like Thomas Hardy, She also believes that happiness is an occasional episode in the general drama of pain .Her novel ` Cry the Peacock’ should be termed as an `epic of feminine sensibilities’. She shares the grief and mental anguish felt by her characters in such a way that we can’t help, but appreciate her. The novel shows how the pragmatic approach of Gautama proves to be a nemesis for him.