Cross culture in the holder of the world

Abstract

Bharati Mukherjees [1] almost all the works is about female protagonists. Her female character belong to every class. Her female character found the struggle and frustration to assimilate herself into two culture, and face the humiliation from the new society. They fulfil all the duties as a daughter, as a mother, as a wife and as a woman. They tried to put their roots into new and different culture. It does not matter that what kind of compromises they will face? The Holder of the World is a unique fusion of fiction and history. It reveals that how eastern culture meets the western culture. Hannah Easton meets the new civilization and tried to assimilate herself into it. Being an outsider she was hated by the natives. She tried to find out her identify in perspective of socially and culturally. For Hannah it is a restless journey from east to west.