Masochistic Woman in Migration: Bharati Mukherjee’s Dimple

Abstract

Mukherjee’s Dimple in Wife also undergoes a psychological crisis called masochism – a tendency related enjoyment of receiving pain.   Mukherjee’s Wife relates the life of a middle-class married Bengali woman, who migrates from Calcutta and immigrates into New York.Dimple has nothing to do except the vague idea about marrying a neurosurgeon because she thinks that marriage is a blessing in disguise.  It will bring her freedom, fortune and perfect happiness. At last, Dimple marries Amit Basu, a consultant Engineer.  He has already applied for immigration to Canada and the USA and the job application is pending in Kenya too. She begins to think that waiting for marriage is better than getting married.  She starts hating everything. Amit is not the man Dimple had imagined.  When he is out of the house, she starts creating the man of her dream with the help of advertisements.