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October 16, 2019 • 17:51 pm 0 points
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In which of Anita Desai?s novels does an insane wife kill her husband ?

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    The Indian novelist, Anita Desai is more interested in interior landscape of the mind than in political or social realities. In her first novel, Cry, The Peacock, Maya and Gautam have strained relationship because of their incompatible temperaments. The novel is woven round the story of its heroine Maya who meets tragic end due to unhappy married life. She is a highly sensitive woman caught up in a discordant marital relationship with her highly practical natured and effluent advocate husband, Gautama. The story is narrated by Maya herself who is disgruntled as a wife throughout her life in the company of her husband. 
    Under the stress of the hidden fear she loses her senses and in a fit of madness she kills Gautama, her husband. Having killed him, she becomes incurably insane and ultimately commits suicide.

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