This paper beautifully examines mental conflict of female protagonists of Shashi Despande, a prominent novelist in the contemporary Indian Literature in English who depicts logically and unpretentiously about the innermost feelings of Women. This paper out and out concentrates more on the Women’s suffering mental trauma and emotional conflict from cultural restriction, patriarchal domination, male child preference, child marriage, forced marital love making. And also this paper neatly analyses the point, the struggle of Women in restoring their dual role as Wife and Mother. Thus this paper brings out the fact that Shashi Despande reveals Woman’s torment out of purely Indian Environment.
