Awaken of the Suppressed Soul in Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence

In India, women writers have put forth the problems faced by the educated middle class woman in her everyday life. Right from the ancient days, many women have strived hard to cope up with this male centered world, few have also raised their voice against the ill treatment. In modern era, the difficulties being faced by women may vary, but they still exist. Modern women, being educated are unable to put up with the hindrances of their suppressed life. Women in the past, barely educated, had tolerance to bear the suppression of the society. But, today’s woman, being a literate, finds it hard to accept the old traditions as it is. She encounters inner conflicts while travelling with both traditional and modern values. Traditional values being mixed in modern woman blood right from her early age of growth and modernity engulfing her in her later age of maturity, has left her in psychological convulsions