Anita Desai’s Use of Interior Monologue in Characters: A Special Study of Maya in Cry, the Peacock
Keywords:
Interior Monologue, Anita Desai, Cry, the PeacockAbstract
Anita Desai is a significant and prolific woman novelist of modern Indian fiction. She is one among those who have handled the recent kind of novel, ‘stream of consciousness novel’. She has undoubtedly given a new outlook to the Indian English novel. She deserves a special mention for her treatment of women in her novels, with the focus on her women characters undergoing mental struggles. Though the technique she applies is more of what is called ‘stream of consciousness’ which at some places looks like ‘interior monologue’ that is often interchangeably understood for the former. This paper focuses on the use of interior monologue by Anita Desai with a special study of one of the women characters, Maya, in the novel Cry, the Peacock.
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