Quest for Identity in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns

Quest for identity aims to examine gender inequality as reflected in the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns through the character analysis of Rasheed, the dominant male character, and the female characters Mariam and Laila, two wives of Rasheed, who marries Laila as his second wife for the sake of producing the son, but he physically abuses both his wives. Then both of them get together and fight against Rasheed and Mariam kills him and she goes to jail and Laila starts her new life with her own identity. Mariam has created her own identity by fighting against the injustice of the patriarchy of the existing system and so has Laila. The primary data have been taken from the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns and the secondary data have been used as the articles published in various journals related to the novel and the theory of patriarchy has become analogous in it.