Bapsi Sidhwa's Essays

Portrayal of Middle Class Women in Bapsi Sidhwas Ice-Candy Man
During the catatonic Times of partitioning
N. Gunasekaran, M.A., M.Phil. and V. Peruvalluthi, Ph.D.
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Abstract
The women characters subtly but effectively deprave the ingrained elements of
patriarchy, privileging female will, choice, strength along with the feminine qualities of
favor and motherhood in Ice-Candy-man which can undoubtedly be termed as a
womens liberationist novel - the traditional novel eulogizes the terrific qualities of men, while in feminist Language in India www.languageinindia.com
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N. Gunasekaran and V. Peruvalluthi, Ph.D.
Portrayal of Middle Class Women in Bapsi Sidhwa?s Ice-Candy Man during the Catatonic
Times of Partition 188
narratives women acquire such attributes by their active involvement in and control of
situational contexts.
Lenny, the teller in Ice-Candy-Man is also the centre of the novel, retaining her independent identity in diverse situations. Her attitude towards her nameless cousin
significantly portrays the feminist need for assertive equality.



Lenny, the child narrator of the
novel, witnesses the barbaric cruelties of the Partition days, including the inhuman
commoditization of women. Yet what emerges as the dominant note or thematic motif in the
novel is not the development of women, but their will and sustained effort to fight against it
and bruise it.
Most of the other Partition novels in English have a bun in the oven concentrated largely on the
helplessness of women pitched against autocratic male forces. Khushwant Singhs Train to
Pakistan, and Manohar Malgonkars A Bend in the Ganges, set off the trauma women had
to undergo during the catatonic times of Partition.
The Woman Characters
The women characters of Ice-Candy-Man wet-nurse our attention to the facts of
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