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www.rersearch-chronicler.com Research Chronicler ISSN-2347-503X International Multidisciplinary Research journal Research Chronicler A Peer-Reviewed Refereed and Indexed International Multidisciplinary Research Journal Volume III Issue I: January – 2015 CONTENTS Sr. No. Author Title of the Paper Download 1 Prakash Chandra Pradhan Political Context of V.S. Naipaul’s Early 3101PDF Novels: Identity Crisis, Marginalization and Cultural Predicament in The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira and The Mimic Men 2 Dr. Shivaji Sargar & The Ecofeminist Approach in Alice Walker’s 3102PDF Moushmi Thombare The colour Purple 3 Dr. Anuradha Re-Reading of Shange’s for colored girls 3103PDF Nongmaithem who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf 4 A. 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She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for her novel „Breathing Lessons‟. All her novels pay close attention to the family plot. She depicts how people manage to experience and cope with prolonged pain or difficulty and how they feel irritated among the family members. Her novels explore complex dysfunctional family relationships and individual search for meaning and identity. Her characters in her novels are mostly constructed in a negative way. Her novels focus on loneliness, isolation, human interactions of eccentric middle – class people living in disunited families. She demonstrates the tenacity of family ties, writing about husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, daughters and daughters in law, sons and grand children‟s. The unhappy characters in her novel escape from familial relationships in order to get a better personal life. The characters confront problems in martial life. Tyler‟s novels deal with familial relationships. Through her novels she displays the fact that people in this world are only human and are hence bound to make mistakes, yet the struggle to survive with the attempt to work out the problems to face in relationships and communication. In addition to escaping from strained families and marriages to seek better personal lives, some of Tyler‟s characters involved in unpleasant and unstable friendships search for a break away from them and a better life without them. Life presents situations all the time with either terrible problems to overcome or exciting challenges to meet in difficult situations. This paper examines the dysfunctional relationships among the family members. Key Words: dysfunctional family, isolation, marital issues, familial relationships, prolonged pain accommodate actions. Children sometimes A family becomes dysfunctional when they grow up in such families with the no longer care and love each other. understanding that such an arrangement is normal. Dysfunctional family is a burden to everyone in it and as soon as the individual Typically a dysfunctional family is one members get a chance to leave, they do so where the relationships between parents and without ever looking back in the hope that children are strained and unnatural. they can change the face of things. A Although there may be many different root dysfunctional family is a family in which causes, such families usually involve one or conflict, misbehavior and even abuse on the more family member with a serious problem part of individual members of the family that impacts every other member of the occur continually, leading other members to family. In turn, the other family members Volume III Issue I: January 2015 (42) Editor-In-Chief: Prof. K.N. Shelke www.rersearch-chronicler.com Research Chronicler ISSN-2347-503X International Multidisciplinary Research journal adopt atypical roles and behavior that allow protagonist often has to deal with the the family to function on a basic level. internal struggle in the family and at the The issue of family relationship is one of the same time they how two recreate their family. In her novels she portrays all kinds major concerns in Anne Tyler‟s novels. Family relationships portrayed in Tyler‟s of problems through her characters. work are characteristically discomforting In many of Tyler‟s novels, the characters and, therefore, become sources of frustration escape from a family situation, especially and loveliness for her characters. Tyler often they escape from a distressful marital reveals the unsettling experiences in their situation. In addition they escape from early childhood or youth, especially their strained families and marriages to seek relationships with their parents or siblings. better personal life. An example for an Most of her characters are experienced with unhappy character is Delia Grinstead in difficult or uneasy childhoods due to “Ladder of years” distress in her marriage parental negligence or parental domination. motivates her to escape to lead a better Such experiences inevitably give rise to their personal life. Delia Grinstead in “Ladder of emotional vulnerability and troublesome years” suffers in her marriage. She personalities, which unfortunately become characterizes herself as a sad, tired, anxious, an impetus to rising conflicts and problems fifty- year old woman. She wonders if her in the subsequent relationships with their husband, her father‟s medical associate families as well as others. married her merely to guarantee his All of Tyler‟s novels involve runaway professional future. A grown woman who wives, husbands, fathers, mothers, and still wears “Baby doll” dresses, she realizes children. Although emotional forces that, she had leaved out her married life like motivating her runaways are less clearly a little girl playing in the house, and always defined in her first two novels, variations on there had been her grown standing ready to Ira‟s lesson draw all of Tyler‟s runaways takeover - her sister, or her husband or her home again, if only briefly. The power of father (127). familial affection becomes increasing The relationship Delia shares with her convincing in her later words. This husband Sam Grinstead who is 15 years to conviction grows out of Tyler‟s own her senior is much like the one that she fondness for her characters. shared with her father. She continues her work at the reception desk and accompanies Anne Tyler has been writing about dysfunctional marriages and families since him on house calls. Because of the age her first novel, If Morning Ever Comes disparity, this marriage approximates a parent - child relationship. The reason for (1964). Tyler is immensely popular writer. She tells lucid stories about complicated leaving her house is that her family won‟t middle class families. Tyler‟s love and deep even listen to her account of the adventure. interest in her family is often reflected in the Thus in her house she feels like a tiny gnat, whirring around her family ages. She themes of her works. In most of her novels questions herself whether Sam married her Volume III Issue I: January 2015 (43) Editor-In-Chief: Prof. K.N. Shelke www.rersearch-chronicler.com Research Chronicler ISSN-2347-503X International Multidisciplinary Research journal just for her father‟s medical practice. She at radical change in both her daughter and her last, decides to leave the family, during an husband. After more than a year of Delia‟s annual vacation at a beach. She walks away absence, a phone call from her home reveals from the beach and grabs a ride to a strange many changes. So a changed daughter and town where she begins a new ascetic life. husband signify the success of Delia‟s Then she feels free from responsibilities to journey. Tyler stated that suffering occurs anyone. She takes on a new identity as Ms. in every family as well as in the family Grinstead works as a Secretary, living in a members. Living is not necessary growing. boarding house. However, families cannot grow without In her room she falls into a routine works of some sort of suffering.