POST-MODERNIST ANALYSIS OF NEW WOMAN IN SHOBHA DE'S 'SECOND THOUGHTS'

Today's literature is stuffed with the psychology of the female characters-their experiences caused by the orthodox society. The women novelists have tried to focus their sufferings, their sexual problems, their marital discord, their frustration, their alienation, their extra-marital relationship, their exploitation, their sufferings from domestic injustice etc. It is very difficult task to examine women psychology because she is too complex in her behaviour. But in English literature there is a galaxy of the writers who have tried to delve into her inner world so as to dig out the hidden roots of her temperament so that her problems may bring into light properly.