Vol. 6, Issue 3, Part C (2020)

Abstract
R.K. Narayan is one novelist whose works have been under public scanner for long. R.K. Narayan portrays with sympathy the sufferings of women and shows the readers how important are their roles both in family and in social life. A systematic analysis has been made in this paper to put R K Narayan's female protagonists in the right perspective highlighting his feminist concern starting from Savitri in the Dark Room. R.K. Narayan’s novels may be termed mythical comedies or Modern fables, because they reflect quart authentically the absurdities and incongruities of the modern Indian society in a fictional form. He has been used novel as an art form to reveal to the masses the evils inherent in their Society.