Vol. 8, Issue 12, Part D (2022)

Abstract
Arundhati Roy (Suzanna Arundhati Roy) is an Indian author best known for her Booker prize winning novel The God of the Small Things (1997). In this novel, there is depiction of the psychological sufferings of the female characters especially of those of the housewives. As well as that of the oppressed and repressed lives of the females in India. Women characters as well as their problems have been given due importance. Full efforts have been made to understand the problems of women as well as their conditions in the society. Roy has highlighted the fact that how the life of women in India is governed by the customs of a family and society. The society only accepts that woman who proves herself a good woman.