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Anita Desai and Shashi Deshpande are prose rhapsodists of feelings, sentiments and emotions passing through the human consciousness, like Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen. Their attention is focused also on feminine suffering in the complex cultural stresses and strains of Indian society. A new generation of women emerged, embracing the changed values in which women have a voice of their own, a voice that had been suppressed for centuries. An attempt has been made in the present study to identify the concept of domestic relationships with reference to three novels of Anita Desai namely Cry, The Peacock (1963)