Quest for Feminine Identity in Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters

Manju Kapur is a renowned novelist, in Indian writing in English. Her character that is caught in the complex web of tradition that appears in two forms in Difficult Daughters. firstly, it manifests itself in the form of patriarchal form of society and secondly, in the form of male chauvinism. The novelist is very capably presented her characters during the period of change that characterizes them with special distinctive characters. A writer, worth the name must capture this time spirit because the time spirit expresses the general mood and temperament of that particular generation, quite distinguishing from the one that proceeds and the one that follows. Her novels touche many issues like revolt against deep-rooted family tradition, the search for selfhood, women’s rights, marriage and the battle for independence at both fronts personal and national. This paper focuses quest for identity in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughter