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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis paper deals with marriage failure found in Bharati Mukherjee?s novel
Wife, observed through the main characters, Amit Basu and Dimple Dasgupta as
husband and wife. The thesis writer is interested in finding the factors that causes
their marriage to fail. Through the analysis, he finds out there are two factors that
lead their marriage to fail, the external factor and the internal factor. The external
factor is the cultural shock they suffered when they move from Calcutta to New
York and the internal factor is from their emotional inner conflicts towards each
other. The significant internal factor is Amit?s ignorance of understanding his
wife?s feelings, that accumulates into dissapointment, dissatisfaction and
frustration that eventually explodes in the form of Dimple?s act of murdering her
husband. The thesis writer uses two literary theories as the tools for analyzing this
novel, characterization and conflict. As this novel is in the sphere of Indian
culture, he uses Kama Sutra?s theory of marriage as supporting tool.