Especially Indian society is bounded with traditional culture. If we specify in particular, Indian society is made up of family culture, the girl or the boy in the family needs to preserve the dignity of the family whether they like it or not. This boundary makes the people to consider the value of the relationship. At one time or another one will understand the importance of their beloved ones and it bonds the separated ones. This scenario is well defined by Manju Kapur in her debut novel Difficult Daughters. Feminists’ writers also often discuss the idea of female bonding and show how daughters can achieve much by following the tradition of their mothers. However, the mother-daughter relationship varies in different cultural backgrounds and most of the time the younger generation looks upon the older as being antagonistic to its interest and therefore refuses to conform. …show more content…
Critics have talked much about the need of identity and autonomy on the daughter’s part. However, Kapur speaks for the independence of both mothers and daughters in her novel. The idea of independence is equally related to mothers as it is to daughters. But these critics concentrate merely on daughter’s struggle to independence, ignoring mother’s aspirations and efforts, as well as her own restrictive and shaping