A Disquisition Of Woman Emotions At Different Levels In Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man

Abstract

Bapsi Sidhwa is a Pakistani novelist of Gujarati Parsi Zoroastrian descent who writes in English and resides in the United States. She has been widely celebrated as the finest novelist produced by her country—the New York Times called her “Pakistan's finest English-language novelist." She represents a group of women creative writers who portray strong-minded women for whom traditional roles are inadequate. These women wish to affirm their independence and autonomy and are perfectly capable of assuming new roles and responsibilities. In Ice Candy Man, Sidhwa envisions a world free from dominance and hierarchy, a world based on the principles of justice and equality, and one that is truly human. The novel explores themes such as identity, loyalty, betrayal, innocence, and violence. This research article attempts to study women's emotions at different levels and the impact of partition on them.