The Cynical Attitude of Dimple in Bharati Mukherjee's Wife

Bharati Mukherjee, an India-born American novelist, has received considerable critical attention from almost all the quarters of the globe in a relatively short period of just twenty five years. She does not like to be called an Indian migrant author and very firmly positions herself as an American author writing American literature. Her forte is her power packed diction penned in consortium with Indian and American cultures. This paper deals with her novel Wife in which the cynical attitude of the protagonist Dimple is portrayed. She starts hallucinating and conjures up variety of fantasies, a pathetic experience, yet a reality encountered by every female. Keywords: Bharati Mukherjee, Wife, Sensuality, Fantasy, Insomniac, Rootlessness, Depression, Sensibility, Skeptical, Contemptuous, Disdainful, Scornful, Enigma, Dissociated.