The relationship with of between a women and her husband tends to hold a great amount of significance to the way they interact with each other and express their desires. However, literature tends to favor the male perspective or even minimize the relationship between a husband and wife. Within South Asian literature, it is hard to see a realistic representative of women desires in a husband wife relationship but short stories such as Wings by Ambai and Band Ghari by Gaura Pant, allows one to see how each wife interacts with her husband and how their desires manifest from given interactions. Ambai’s Wings is about Chaya’s relationship with her penny pinching husband Bkaskaran, who expresses no emotions towards his wife and son. On the other hand, Pant’s Band Ghari explores the relationship between Maya and her tyrant husband Girish. Both women grow unhappy with their marriage in which similarity can be seen through their suffering; however their reaction to their suffering varies.
Firstly, there is the clear evidence that both women feel as if they are unhappy in their marriage. This unhappiness is important to both characters as it leads them to find a way to escape their suffering and be free in their own sense. For Chaya, there is a desire to spread her “wing” but to do so she thought of the one thing that forbidden to Hindu women; Chaya planned on leaving her husband and creating new life for herself (Ambai 48). Maya plan to escape from her suffering is based upon a hastily decision after reading an article about a young women who had killed herself to escape her husband. However, it is important to note that their unhappiness stems from different aspects of their relationships with their husband and therefore leads them to t...
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...s job and his family life. His strict discipline gnaws away at the affection his children hold for him (81). There is one day when Maya is doing house chores when she discovers a news clipping of a young women who set herself on fire to escape the fighting and domestic violence of her home. At the very instant, Maya decides that she would do the same, “[it shall] teach Girish a lesson (84). Maya’s suffering comes from the fact that she does not feel respected for all the work she does around the house and how she takes care of the children.
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