Depression Of Woman

She feels depressed due to her loss of own identity as an independent person because of her marriage. She becomes dependent on her husband and she has no identity other than his wife. She finds no companion as her husband stays out of the house due to his clinic practice. Manju Kapur has portrayed Nina as caught in a strange world in which she is nowhere with no value and hope for life. She feels as ‘rootless’ and ‘branchless’. Manju Kapur presents a realistic description of dejection. She writes:
The minute she gets up, she is at a loose end. Languidly she approaches her homework, dishwashing, bed making, cleaning, stretching and every task out, slow, slow. She keeps the radio on, listening to music, advertisements, the C. B. C. and its take on Quebec separation and Pierre Eliot Thoreau. (Kapur 124) Nina becomes so depressed because of loneliness that she cannot enjoy even simple things of life that could make her life happy. She becomes too depressed to accept the sentimental activities of a young couple who explore their love publically in a movie hall and gets irritated about emptiness in her life. She feels surprised at their kissing each other openly without caring others. Her reactions to these things are the result of her orthodox mindset and traditional customs of …show more content…
In absence of it, women made to feel deficient. Similarly, the segment of children is missing in Nina’s marriage and that makes her feel worthless. Adrienne Rich in his book, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution focuses on the importance of motherhood in these words, “Motherhood is not only a core human relationship but a political institution, a keystone to the domination in every sphere of women by men” (Rich 112). Nina’s loneliness after the marriage makes her to think all the while of having a child. Manju Kapur has brilliantly expressed Nina’s longing for a child in the following