• Neelam Devi

Shashi Deshpande is a well-known Indian woman author who was born in 1938. One of her books, That Long Silence, won the Sahitya Akadami Award in 1990. This research paper is based on this book, which won an award. Relationships between men and women, problems with being married, discrimination based on gender, self-definition, the search for identity, power, and sexual politics are the things that bother the author the most. People think that Shashi Deshpande writes about girls of today. Deshpande's main female characters are hurt by the well-known bias and discrimination against women, first as daughters and then as wives. In Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence, the goal of this research paper is to find the conflict between the women. In the book That Long Silence, Jaya is the main character. She looks at how Jaya feels about herself and the world. Mohan, Jaya's husband, is in charge of all the wedding plans. Shashi Deshpande is trying to figure out who she is and what it means in Indian culture to be a woman. Deshpande shows how they really lived, especially how hard life was for Jaya. The author likes to write about how hard it is to be a woman, but in this book, she talks about herself as a woman, a partner, and a mother. So, the story in the book shows how even small problems can make someone sad. On the other hand, the author makes it sound like the main character, a woman from a middle-class family in India, puts up with the tyranny of man in silence. After a long time of silence, Jaya calls to break the silence. Deshpande is trying to figure out what it means to be a woman in India and who she is.

Identity Crisis, Discrimination, Suffering, Dominance, Marital Discord

"The Female Character's Challenges in Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no.f498-f501, September-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309559.pdf

"The Female Character's Challenges in Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 9, page no. ppf498-f501, September-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2309559.pdf