FEMALE EXPERIENCES AS INDIANWIVES IN THE NOVELWIFE BY BHARATI MUKHERJEE

According to Shilpi Pradhan, Mukherjee is included as one of American India woman author with literary career that was acclaimed started from 1971. Mukherjee's works focus on the phenomenon of migration, the status of new immigrants, and the feeling of alienation that often experienced by expatriates as well as on Indian women and their struggle. Actually Mukherjee as an immigrant makes her own struggle with identity first as an exile from India, then as an Indian expatriate in Canada, and finally as an immigrant in the United States has led to her current contentment of being an immigrant in a country of immigrant. (1998) From that viewpoint, the writer concludes that Bharati’s works might provide several evidences through her personal issues. Her novel Wife is actually the shape of women experience. The story of Wife tells about two women named Dimple Dasgupta and Ina Mullick. Dimple who have been suppressed by such men and attempts to be the ideal Indian wives, but out of fear and personal instability, Dimple kills her husband and eventually commits suicide. On the other hand, Ina Mullick tries harder to reach her dream; she wants to be different from traditional Indian wives. This novel indicates the dilemma of the Indian women whose social role arranged by tradition. From those theoretical and historical reasons, the writer is interested to propose the study about feminist view of Dimple Dasgupta and Ina Mullick as the main character in Wife novel by Bharati Mukherjee in a research entitled “Female Experiences as Indian wives in the novelWIFE by BharatiMukherjee