The role of women in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s sister of my heart

Abstract

The paper focuses on the role of the women characters. Many a time we have seen that women are responsible for keeping the traditional value intact. Women had always been undervalued due to patriarchal superiority. In the Indian society especially, the experiences of women were not considered much compared to the perceptions and experiences of their male counterparts in the society. Women writers had mostly presented a narrow canvas of themes like domestic issues, experiences of in-law's place, and difficulties in adjustment in post and pre-marital status, sexual harassment, dejection to name a few. Sister of My Heart deals with different ranges of women experiences altogether and touches all aspect of a woman’s life.