• K.P.Bhavatharini
• Dr. Anita Albert

Manju Kapur’s novel presents about the woman who fought against the suppression and oppression in forced on them by the patriarchal society. The novel Difficult Daughters portrays the position of woman in the society and their craving to get their own identity. Manju Kapur has penned down her work with the purpose of empowering woman against gender bias classism. Her novel tries to analyze the issues of woman and their effort taken by those to overcome that Manju Kapur’s female protagonist are highly educated. Their education makes them too aware of their rights, independent which became an unbearable to the society as well as her family. Some women are come out of the hardship in the family and tried hard to attain their identity. But they too become a victim of gender bias society. They had their own aspiration to achieve but the surroundings destroy their aspiration and in reality they still become an object to the society. Most of her novel revolves around the quest for identity. Beavoir says

QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN MANJUKAPUR’S DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS

"QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN MANJUKAPUR’S DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.491-495, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907826.pdf

"QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN MANJUKAPUR’S DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp491-495, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907826.pdf