Representation of Women’s Real Life vs Inner Feeling in Shobha De’s Second Thoughts

Abstract

The paper is attempted to analyze traditional woman’s life between reality and inner thought process in Shobha De’s Second Thoughts, the novel is about an Indian girl, Maya who is victimized as silent sufferer through matrimonial relationship. This novel also describes the predicament of women by the protagonist Maya who is forced to suffer silently in rigid social like male-domination. The inner feeling and complex trauma are realistically depicted. Moreover, Maya is a unique of Shobha De’s other protagonist. One way she is very traditional and doing things that her parents said and on the other side, she wants to live her life happily without any traditional and social norms. After marriage she realizes consequences of male dominated world and reality and so she starts living her life by her way and indulges in the love affair with Nikhil. Maya, in her world, tries to avoid all the traditions and her marriage with Ranjan. When she came to know about Nikhil’s fake love, she accepted the pain and again joins with Ranjan.