Marriage Conflict Characterized in Anita Desai’s ?Cry The Peacock?

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Marriage is very common and basic in every society. It is the recognized social establishment, not totally for setting up and maintaining the household, but also for creating and holding up the ties of relationship. Marriage conflict is set as a disparity through which the parties involved perceive a threat to their needs, interests or concern and it is also seen as a difference of opinion between people with opposing needs, ideas, beliefs, values, or finishes. The disharmonized personality’s search for fulfillment is a common place theme in modern fiction. Anita Desai is considered as the unacknowledged authority of exposing the predicament of modern women in India. She appears more concerned with the inner plight of her alienated protagonist in the existing human society. In the patriarchal culture, the personal conflict of identity of the Indian woman gains a dimension in the hands of Anita Desai. In her novels, she has depicted the man-woman relationship and the untold sufferings of women out of the marital disharmony.Desai’s debut novel Cry, the Peacock is considered as one of the first steps in the management of psychological fiction in Indian writing in English. The marital disharmony between Maya and Gautama and its consequences is discussed in Anita Desai’s debut novel Cry, the Peacock.