Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife: A Psychological Aspects

Abstract

The story of Wife begins with Dimple Dasgupta, a young girl who like all other Indian girls, wants to marry of her dream hero. Her parents were very much hurried and worried about her marriage. They were looking for an engineer because Mr. Dasgupta was an electrical engineer and his neighbours were also engineers, but Dimple wanted to marry a neurosurgeon. Dimple has a belief that marriage bring us freedom, love and big parties so she wishes to get married soon. To make her body slim, beautiful, fit and fair she starts using cosmetics. First Mrs. Dasgupta was not much worried about her marriage but when Dimple got sick, her mother found that her sickness symbolises that now her body has been prepared for marriage. As Dimple was student, she was preparing herself for the university exam. But she got the rumour by her best friend Paramita Ray that the university exam had been postponed. Everyone likes to call Paramita Ray as Pixie. She was very fond of novels, films and magazines. She believed that, “Love had to be more than films stats holding hands on a tear- stained page.”