Trace the Harsh and Hardships of the Women's Portrayal of Shashi's Short Stories

Deshpande’sshort stories one how all children learn certain misconceptions from their parents to imitate from them. The Indian culture makes the girls alien to their own maternal home after their marriage. Right from the beginning they are brought up imbibing such thoughts in their mind. As a result they naturally feel themselves alien in their maternal home where a place where they have been born and brought up. Her the women characters are operative sensibility becomes an imposition only when the woman is laid rigid rules of how they should behave. But if the rules are rigidly laid for them, as a wife or a mother that she should do this furtherly, unhappiness and uneasiness dawns for a woman who nds herself ways to get ride of the suffocating relationships. Moreover the problems of women facing the in delity of their husbands to go unnoticed. Unless the woman who faces the problem expresses that, no one can realize it. His works reveals the operative sensibility of the women to examines their feelings of the Deshpande’s women protagonists of all kind - married, unmarried, teenagers, children towards other relations to see how these roles react to each other.The chapter also examines the subjugated position of the women in Indian society and their positive reaf rmation. In some of her short stories Deshpande has portrayed the power of mothers and grandparents over their daughters and granddaughters. some other stories, the mothers are portrayed as isolated gures, by working within their limited purview. They are dominated by their men-folk, harassed by their inlaws and misunderstood by their daughters. If Jaya of “Ït was the Nightingale” is the guilty of going ahead with her career neglecting her family life, Hema of “A Wall is Safer” is the guilty of giving importance to the family by sacri cing her career