Paper Details

Name: Sandip Sarang, Garima Goyal
Country: India

Year: 2014
Volume: Volume-1, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 75-78

Ladies Coupe by Anita Nair is one of the brilliant inductions of strength and endurance. Through this novel, Nair reveals restlessness and dilemmas that a woman faces throughout her life and her immediate urge for love and independence. In a way, writer through her various female characters operates on a broader canvas taking into account the lives of certain women belonging to middle class families. The pristine stance of the author particularly makes her story more than just the predictable feminist platitude that it might appear. The author has captured the experiences and the proficiencies of everyday life (that a mother, a wife, a daughter and an unmarried woman undergoes) in a very realistic manner. Nair is very committed in highlighting the afflictions and contradictions of women’s lives; the sacrifices they make in their marriage and family, their forced choices and (required) self-imposed relationships. The novel emphasizes on an inner strength that is possessed by every human being as seen in the major character- Akhila.