EXISTENTIAL PREDICAMENT OF WOMEN IN GREATER LOVE, AFTER THE STORM AND THE LIBRARY GIRL

Abstract

The present paper attempts to study three randomly selected short-stories Greater Love, After the Storm, The Library Girl by Cornelia Sorabjee, AttiaHosain and VishwapriyaIyengar respectively, and to show how far these stories(penned by woman writers) are instrumental in revealing and depicting the saga of innumerable pain of the female section of the society in a country like India, irrespective of caste, creed and religion. The main protagonists in these stories tell of the existential predicament of women and their marginalized identity. Each of the stories under study deals with the pain and suffering of women and this suffering becomes a vehicle and instrument for the writer to depict the social, political, religious and economic background in which a story is set. The stories share temporal and spatial differences among one another, but they have one commonality, that they speak unequivocally of the different ways women are made to accept the injustice and subjugation inflicted upon themselves by the patriarchal society, sometimes in the name of religion and sometimes culture.