• Udhayambikai

In Bharati Mukherjee’s novel Wife, a tragedy, from the very beginning Dimple, the protagonist of Wife appears as a person who lives in an imaginary world, beyond reality. She dreams of a perfect husband and perfect life but when her dreams remain unfulfilled, she murders her husband and thinks that no one will catch her for murder as she saw in most of the serials. So, Wife can be read as tragedy brought in by unfulfilled dreams of an unbalanced personality. Bharati Mukherjee is an Indian –born American novelist and a short-story writer who represented in her writing the cultural changes and variance in the immigrant experience. The stories have disclosed the futility of Western glamorous life and baseless romantic views. Mukherjee’s own biographical path covers India, Canada and United States and her novels mainly focus on dislocation, alienation and assimilation in the alien land. She has written eight novels, two collections of short stories such as Darkness and The Middleman.

Identity, Fancy, Americanization, cultural rivalry, Wife, Immigration

"Reinventing the Self in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.689-692, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06146.pdf

"Reinventing the Self in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp689-692, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06146.pdf