Husband - Wife Relationship in Anita Desai's novel 'Cry the Peacock

Anita Desai is one of the strongest voices of Indian women writers in English. Her novels are unique in it. This paper is an analysis of the husband wife relationship in her famous novel Cry the Peacock. This novel, is dealing with relationship between Maya and Gautama a lack of genuine understanding and emotional bond, here Maya is sensitive and imaginative woman while Gautama is a practical and rational man. In this novel there is description of Maya's internal quarrels and feeling of loneliness. Maya is Central character in this novel. Anita Desai depicted there is Martial dissonance amid husband wife relationship.