• Gurwinder Kaur

‘The Guide’, an Indo-Anglican fiction, is a work of all times by R.K. Narayan, which holds boatload of themes in its cloak. Among them, there is a theme of conflict between conventional and unconventional. But the motive of my research paper is to study this theme in the light of the character of Rosie, whose life moves forward with mixture of traditional and modern gears from under cover dancer to a professional one. She rises from a typical Indian wife to a self- dependent woman who doesn’t even spare the man to whom she loved very truly but in return he stung her hard work. Her desires, dilemmas and decisions can happen only to an Indian woman. She may seem ahead of her time but certainly contemporary in 2017. This article is an attempt to show that in reality she is just like our diverse Indian culture which conceives both tradition and modernity.

Conservative, Modernity, New Woman, Tradition, Karma, Snake.

"Rosie: A Lady with two shades in R. K. Narayan’s ‘The Guide’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.416-418, January 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDX06064.pdf

"Rosie: A Lady with two shades in R. K. Narayan’s ‘The Guide’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp416-418, January 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDX06064.pdf