Abstract
Manju Kapur is one of the notable contemporary Indian Women writers who has meaningfully underwritten the progress of Indian fiction. She is a writer who mechanically identifies with the situation of women in a masculine society and contracts with the problems of women. Her novels current the ongoing fight of women to establish an identity of their own. She shows different histories, cultures, and different construction of values, the complexities of life in family members to the socio cultural context; and, the male-controlled pressure, control, and social exclusion that women are subjected to. Her writings reproduce the experiences of the woman in the real world. The Immigrant is the story of Interruption and Cultural conflict. It is about thirty-one year old unattached, Nina, who lived with her widowed mother in Delhi. She acquires married to Ananda, an NRI, Dentist, and fly to Canada to start her new life. The paper here converses how the novelist carries out the life of a married woman, with her husband alone to exchange with, all alone in a strange land where Indian Culture and Independence has often remained unfamiliar ideas. Married ecstasy, women‟s protagonist at home, and the change of assertiveness is mainly focused. The isolation and sensitivity of being evacuated rotate the character of habitually brought up, Nina. Finally, there is the whole modification in the personality and mentality of the character and she grows a new aspect towards life and moving into the future.
Keywords: Masculine, Construction, Interruption, Converses, Assertiveness.
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