![]() The society is so hostile towards women that Tagore's Mrinal finds no human beings rather domestic cattle as her most close friends. ![]() ![]() Being a male person and a member of a dogmatic Hindu family, Tagore seems very spontaneous in unearthing the suppressions that women are undergoing in that society which is unwilling to accept women as human. Mrinal lives with this family for fifteen years as an “Angel in the House” and now she has decided to go on a pilgrimage that will allow her to be free from the bondages of patriarchal superstore. Mrinal, the protagonist, is a "doll wife" of an aristocratic family, a family that values patriarchy more that a religion. Breaking his typical patriarchal narrative form, he makes a woman the narrator of the story. Tagore's short story "Streer Patra" (The Wife's Letter) is a unique literary piece just not because it is his first short story in colloquial Bangla, rather he, here, for the first time speaks clea rly and boldly about a woman's individuation.
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