The book is about the troubled psyche of Indian married woman who suffers inequality in marital relationship. It is an attempt to find out the gaps in happy married life by studying four novels in Indian context through feminist, existential and psychoanalytical perspective. Women from different strata of society: a girl child (Raka); widow (Nanda Kaul), House wife (Roop, Satya, Mona) career woman (Sarita) all suffer repercussions of unhappy married life. The ...