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PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN THE NOVELS AND SHORT-STORIES OF BHARATI MUKHERJEE

PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN THE NOVELS AND SHORT-STORIES OF BHARATI MUKHERJEE AND EDITED POEMS OF HARPRASAD SHARMA BY DR. RAM SHARMA

Taking into account the complexity of life,different histories culture and different structures of values, the woman’s question despite basic solidarity, needs to be tackled in relation to the socio-cultural situation. The novels of Bharati Mukherjee are self actualising. Quest for the definition of self and search for identity are the main features of her women who are seen caught in the flux of tradition and tradition and modernity. Neither can they completely detach themselves from their part, nor do they have any certitude in the future. Bharati Mukherjee has interceded reworked the study of feminism in her writings. Central to her vision in The Holder Of The World, Wife and jasmine are issues related to women. Feminism in her works has something of What Caroll Smith Rosen Berg (1979) argues is -the emotional segregation of women and man, which brought about, led to the development of a specifically female world(137)-. The network of female world comes to us not only in Mukherjee’s novels but also in her collections of Short Stories. She advocates many faces of feminism encompassing agitation for equal opportunity, sexual antonomy and right of self determination.

Justification

Mukherjee’s fiction convinces us that gender is a multifaceted category open to change and variation, and reinforces, what Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing had suggested-that particular forms of female marginality must be examined in relation to the conditions of women’s lives-as immigrants, minorities, wealthy, poor, black, white, sex workers, maids, or academics (quoted by Rayaprol 135). Mukherjee’s depiction of women and their different relationships portrays the dominance of patriarchal practices in traditional society, as well as the forms of liberation and empowerment which are available to women in their diasporic situation. Mukherjee’s female characters are real, modern lifelike. They are typical representatives of young woman particularly of The Third World countries who cherish the dream of emigrating to America for higher education and higher wages, and then after arrival there, aspire to settle there permanently. Their situations and the difficulties they face are also realistically portrayed. In nearly, all stories there is a fixed pattern. In the first part of each story, the focus is on narrating the situation of an immigrant who is in the process of immigration or settling down and in the second part who is in the process of immigration or settling down and in the second part the protagoinst is invariably given to making love with a partner of the opposite sex who is rooted in the American soil.

Contents

1. Chapter I Introduction 2. Chapter II Portrayal of Women IN -The Tiger’s Daughter- 3. Chapter III Portrayal of Women IN -Wife- 4. Chapter IV Portrayal of Women IN -Jasmine- 5. Chapter V Portrayal of Women IN -The Holder Of The World- 6. Chapter VI Portrayal of Women IN -Leave It To Me- 7. Chapter VII Portrayal of Women IN -Desirable Daughters- 8. Chapter VIII Portrayal of Women IN -Tree Bride- 9. Chapter IX Portrayal of Women IN -The Short Stories- 10. Conclusion 11. Bibliography (i) Primary Sources (ii) Critical Studies On Bharati Mukherjee

Chapter I

Introduction

Bharati Mukerjee is a significant woman novelist. She was born on 27th July 1940, in a Bengali Brahmin family of Calcutta. Her father’s name was Sudhir Lal Mukherjee. He was a pharmaceutical chemist. Her mother, Bina Mukherjee was a housewife. Mukherjee spent her first eight years as a member with her parents and two sisters in a joint family . She lived with her parents and two sisters in London for about three years. in 1951 the family returned to Calcutta and she joined the English -speaking Loreto, convent school, run by Irish nuns. Mukherjee and her sisters were chauffeured to the convent school quite, Characteristic of this clash of Bengalis, the family “westernized” in the sense that English education was valued.

In 1958, Mukherjee’s father lost her partnership in the factory and moved him family to Baroda. Bharati Mukherjee completed her B.A. (Honours) English at university of Calcutta in 1959. She took her M.A. degree in English from the university of Baroda in 1961.She went to the University of obtained an MFA in creative writing in 1963 and a Ph.D. in English in 1969.

In the University of Iowa Mukherjee met Clark Blaise, a Canadians fellow student at the university of Iowa. She married him in 1963. She lived in Canada from 1966 to 1980. She got Canadian citizenship and lived in Toronto and then in Montreal. She held teaching portions at MC Gill university and Concordia university. She migrated to the U.S.A. in 1980 with her family and become a U.S.A citizen in 1988. She was awarded the “Prestigious Shastri Indo Canadian Institute Grant” during the year 1976-77. She was a recipient of “Guggenhein Foundation Award” in 1978-79 and “Canadian Government Award in 1982.” She also won the first prize from “Periodical Distribution Association in 1980” for her short story “Isolated Incidents”. Mukherjee has also been honoured with the “National Book Critics Circle Award” for her short stories collection. “The Middleman and Other Stories in 1989”. Her other works are. Her creative five novels are: “The Tiger’s Daughter (1972), Wife (1975), Jasmine (1989), The Holder of the world (1993) , Leave It to me (1997), Desirable Daughters (2002) and The tree Bride (2004) and two collections of short stories : “Darkness (1985)” and ” The Middleman and Other Stories (1988)”. Her husband, Clark Blaise, helps her in her fiction. He is an American – Canadian author. He teaches also in the English department of Columbia university.She has co-authored with her husband two non-fictional works: first is ” Days and Night in Calcutta” in (1977), and second is ” The Sorrow and the Terror”

Chapter-II

Portrayal Of Women In -The Tiger’s Daughter-

The Tiger’s Daughter reflects the confrontation between illusion and reality. Tara, the protagoinst was packed off by her father at early age of fifteen at America, because he was prompted by suspicion and pain for his country. Tara is homesick in Poughkeepsie. Little things pained her. She sensed discriminaton if her room mate did not share her mango chutney. She defended her family and her country vehemently. She prayed to kali for strength, so that she would not break down, before the Americans. It was fate that she fell in love with an American. This novel begins with a reference to fate and astrology. It seems a device adopted by the writer around which she can weave her plots. Tara’s husband David was painfully Western, she was dutifully devious in her marriage. She could not communicate the finer nuances of her family background and life in Calcutta. Her husband asked nave questions about Indian Customs and Traditions. She felt completely insecure in an alien atmosphere. -Madisson Square was unbearable and her husband was after all a foreigner.- After a gap of seven years Tara planned a trip to India, for years she had dreamed of this return. She believed that all hesitations and all shadowy fears of the time abroad would be erased quite magically if she could return home to Calcutta. With the precision of a newspaper reporter, Bharati Mukherjee leads her heroine through a series of adventures and dis-adventures to a final self-realisation and reconciliation. Tara’s homesick eyes noticed may changes in the city of Calcutta. She was outraged, and could not respond to these changes. She longed for the Bengal Of Satyajit Rao , children running through cool green spaces, aristocrats despairing in music rooms of empty places. What confronted her was a restive city which forced weak men to fanatical defiance or dishonesty.

The writer interlinks the events-like Tara’s visit to funeral pyre at the river bank, her meeting with a small beggar girl affected with leprosy, the vision of beggar children eating off the street, the superficialities in the lives of her friends, the riots and demonstrations and her claustrophobic rape by the politician Tuntunwala to bring out the trauma of Tara’s visit to India. Tara’s visit to Darjelling is also marred by ugly and violent incidents. Many of Tara’s doubts and conflicts are resolved by the strength, determination and quite dignity of her parents. AntoniaWhitehead, an American lends Tara a fresher and clearer perspective about her country. Tara realized that her earlier responses to Calcutta had also been similarly impatient, menacing and equally innocent. The visit to the ashram of Mata Kananbala Devi makes her share of love for her mother as well as the worshippers.The Indian dream is shattered but the writer leads the heroine to a final reconciliation. At the end of the novel, Tara is involved in a violent demonstration, in which Joyob Roy Chaudhary, a symbol of the old world is brutally beaten to death. Pronob the youth tries to save him, but is himself injured in the process. This was a course of history, which could not be stopped. -She felt she had made peace with the city, nothing more was demanded.-

Chapter-III

Portrayal Of Women In -Wife-

Wife is a story of Dimple Das Gupta, a product of Calcutta’s middle class that values docility and submissiveness in women. From the very beginning we feel that the Dimple is not like a normal girl, she thinks that marriage is a blessing in disguise. It will bring her freedom, fortune and happiness. At last her father Mr. DasGupta married her daughter with Amit Basu. Basu’s house is not attractive, so she does not feel easy there. She doesn’t likes Amit’s mother and sister also. Her mother-in-law dislikes her name -Dimple’ and wants to call her -Nandini’. Dimple Basu has always lived in a fantastic world, a world which is created by herself. But when she confronts the hard realities of life the feathers of her imagination are clipped. Amit was not the man Dimple has imagined for her husband. With the passing of time the excitement of marriage diminishes and she becomes pregnant, She feels a strange sensation. Pregnancy is a boon for Indian women, but Dimple is singular in that -She thought of ways to get rid of -. So she decides to terminate her pregnancy, Only Dimple who can do herself abortion, She never repents her cruel deeds. Inamdar rightly says -Dimple is a psychic study of an abnormal woman-. Dimple wants to do away with the tradition taboos of a wife and she becomes on escapist, lost in her requestered world of fantasy. The killng of a mouse to her is a symbolic suicide of herself. In New York her circumscribed self finds expressions for her frustration in a chilling effect of self assertion- the act being the cold blooded murder of her husband. The name Dimple is quite scintillating and enticing but lexico- graphically it means any slight surface depression. This depression on the surface is again symbolic of the depression within her psyche, which is borne out of her irritable responses to the things around her. Bharati Mukherjee present the world of Dimple. A world of day dreams and nightmares and her morbid psyche through a series of grotesqe images. Dimple’s morbidity is evident while she is still at her parental home in the way she allows her conscious mind to be completely dominated by the colourful romance projected in the advertisements and the stories of magzines. Including herself in sexual fantasies with Cricket Stars, Young Cabinet Ministers and Heroes from novels, Dimple sets out on a long journey of unreal meaningless and morbid existence. Dimple in wife, is symbolized the predicament of a voice without articulation and without a vision. They are visionless because they are voiceless ; they are rootless because they are shootless. Uniquely Indian are superficially westernized, she is basically human. They give vent to their feminine sensibility in their frantic desire for an authentic communication with the self as well as the society.

Chapter-IV

Portrayal Of Women In Jasmine

Jasmine can be read as a feminist novel where the protagonist rebels not only against age-old superstitions and traditions, but also effects a proper balance between tradition and modernity. The novel is a celebration of the strength of a woman, not her weakness. In a language of emotion and meticulous metaphor using images provided by the woman protagonist the novelist has articulated the many sided pathos and rebellion of contemporary Indian Woman, not only in India but also in New World. In Jasmine a woman comes to terms with her own self. As Sumita Roy points out :- -Jasmine’s search for self-recognition takes her in social and spiritual direction–.till she arrives at a time when she can view the future -greedy with wants and reekless from hope-. From the very beginning Bharati Mukherjee has delineated the Jyoti of Hasanpur (who later on becomes Jasmine, and Jase and Jane ) as a rebel against blind beliefs and superstitions. Early in the novel Jyoti tries to raise herself above such blind belief in fate which is adumbrated by the astrologer thus -fate is Fate-. While scavenging firewood Jyoti gets a star shaped wound on her forhead. That scar becomes her third eye and through an archetypal image (Shiva’s Third Eye) Mukherjee shows that already Jyoti was peering out into invisible words (Now I am a sage-) The third eye gives her a wide and true perspective on life. She learns to look back to the past not like a coward bunkering herself inside nostalgia, sheathing her heart in a bullet-proof vest. For her, even memories are a sign of disloyality. Similarly with her third eye she learns to look into the future with pain and hope and when she embarkes into her final journey in America she is -greedy’ with wants and reekless with hopes. It is as if like Shiva she was swallowed the cosmos whole. Bharati Mukherjee also shows her woman protagonist repudiating centuries – old ugly Indian tradition of checking the boys horoscope.The second archetypal image that Bharati Mukherjee uses to bring out the protagonist’s feminist trait is that of Kali, the Goddess of Destruction. But since in Hindu mythology Kali is an incarnation of Durga, the Godess of Strength (shakti), the image here is more relevant to the strength of a woman like Jasmine who has embarked on a perilous journey to a new world of fulfill her husband’s dream. After her husband’s death in order to reach USA she stows in a boat captained by half-face. But after landing in America when half-face demands his price (nothing less than the satisfaction of his lurtful passions will do) Jasmine in a truly feminist gesture decides to kill the Devil Incarnate and Bharati Mukherjee brilliantly fuses two archetypal image to enact the killing of Kali : The Godess of Destruction and strength and the broken pitcher. This new identity in reality expresses another aspect of the -feminist- in the Indian fiction in English for the true feminist, in my eyes, is the one who has achieved a proper balance between tradition and modernity. In the beginning in America Jasmine lodges with Prakash’s Professorji-Mr. Vadhera. But she feel uncomfortable in Professorji’s house which they have converted into a Punjab ghetto. She wants to get away from the claustrophobic traditional -Indianness’ and Bharati Mukherjee brings out this contrast between tradition and modernity through the contrast between Professorji wife Nirmala and the protagonist Jasmine. Nirmala only takes, Jasmine both takes and gives. That is why she can escape the Indian ghetto in flushing and adopt herself to the patterns of dominant. American culture ( modernity) but that does not mean she throws to the wind her race, her religion , her beliefs (tradition). A true feminist Jasmine, does not hold fast to nostalgia that is dead but maintains certain basic traits of Indian Culture even after imbibing American Culture. Thus even after Jasmine has become Dulf’s day Mummy, a caregiver (not a servant, mind you) in the Taylor household her traditional roots break through again and again. With infinite care Bharati Mukherjee her protagoinst’s gradual transformation but some times there is a conflict between Jasmine’s two selves, one still holding fast to traditional Indian Values of life and the other an adventure in a Capitalistic Culture. But as an apotheosis of true Feminist spirit Jasmine does not hold fast to a -dead nostalgia- and as she tells Taylor about her past, it gets exorcised. She falls hopelessly in love with Taylor but the past comes back to destroy her present when she sees Sukhi, her husband’s murderer in the park and she decides to leave Claremont For Iowa. And here in Iowa Budd Ripplemeyer falls in love with her (and she gets a new identity : Jane Ripplemeyer ) . Budd courts her because for him she is the very embodiment of Eastern mystery. -Budd courts me because I am alien, I am darkness, mystery inscrutability.- Bharati Mukherjee passes the final judgement through her mouthpiece, Jasmine, we are once won over by her scintillating prose, her cadenced rhythm and above all her powerful feminist convictions. -I am caught between the promise of America and old world dutifulness.-

Chapter-V

Portrayal Of Women In -The Holder Of The World-

-The Holder Of The World- is a feminist novel. But as far as handling of feminist point of debate is concerned a parallel can be drawn between -The Journey Of Ithaca- and -The Holder Of The World-. -The Holder Of The World- is a story of Hannah Easton a abandoned child came to India in the seventeenth century and imbided herself in its culture. Hannah Easton arrives in India from Puritan Massachusetts and -translates herself’ into the Salem Bibi, the mistress of Raja Jadav Singh. The novel also gyrates around the tale of the Emperor’s Tear, the diamond which Aurangzeb hung in his war tent and which Hannah steals. But history loses the diamond. In the mid-twenteith century Beigh Marters and her boyfriend Venn Iyer of MIT strives to create the greatest -data plasma’ in the world. They ste to unearth something useful from layers of history, life and times of the Salem Bibi and the Emperor’s Tear. Beigh Masters visit the Maritime Museum in Massachussets to lock into the dusty debris of Mughal Miniature Paintings’ goes to auction houses and several historical records and memories. The transmigration of Salem Bibi’s soul through time and space becomes an allegory of Beifg Master’s personal discovery.Flavour of -historical feminism’ is insinuated here and there through the incidents of Hannah’s life. Her mother Rebecca leaves an ineradicable imprint on young Hannah’s mind which she disappears with a Nipmuc–The ultimate unnatural crime of Puritan Life–.She (Hannah) witnessed the fall, not Adam’s fall Rebecca’s fall. Hannah carries claustrophobic memories of the event through out her life. She too later profligates the concept of a proper English lady to become the bibi of Jadhav Singh, who is fighting the Mughals. She was brought up in an orthodox setup of fitch household, gained all the conventional wisdom and housekeeping, developed an obsessive love of needle work. Hannah neither forgets nor forgives her mother’s crime of elopement. She never shares her emotional tumult with anyone. In the Puritan family circle of fitch she could never imagine to talk to her mother. Her husband Gabriel Legge is a colourful raconteur, the swaggering seafarer, he never had time or sensibility to listen to Hannah. He is employed as a factor of the East India Company. Hannah’s fate brings her to India, her marriage with Gabriel emulates her mother’s behaviour. She finds a good friend in Bhagmati, her Indian ayah, who brings to her the glimmerings of understanding of an aged civilization. She narrates fragments from -The Ramayana’. She is attracted to the events of Sita’s life because she proves her purity to her husband and to her society in a trial by fire. The God Of Fire, Agni, embraces her and expels her unscorched. An interesting parallel is that Hannah’s life was also a trial by fire , but unlike Sita she never withstands Agnipariksha for the sake of her husband. Gabriel wanted Hannah to triumph over her Puritan sensibilities and she obliged him, because she loved things of life. Legge joins a group of pirates and during one of his misadventures with Haj pilgrims he is separated from his wife. Hanna escapes with Bhagmati to Panpur under the protection of Raja Jadav Singh of Devgad. Bhagmati and Hannah become the guests of Raja. She steps into a new world of Hinduism. She and Jadav Singh wooed each other. The Nawab Haider Beg despatches his most ruthless commander , Morad farah, to cage Raja, Jadav Singh unsurp the diamond, Emperor’s tear and bring Hannah, the firangi lady. Jadav Singh with no option, bundled Hannah and Bhagmati into a palanquin and a disguised Raja into another. On their way to Nawab the Raja attacked the Mughal army. Hannah eventually kills Morad saves Jadav’s life and brings him back to Panpur. She decides to offer her life to end the war, goes to transact with the Emperor but is taken hostage by him. Whenever, Aurangzeb comes to see her, she is reminded of Ravana the demon king of Lanka in Muslim disguise. Though she fails in her mission for armistice between the Raja and the Emperor, somehow, she purloins the diamond- the Emperor’s Tear. She hands over the diamond to Bhagmati. The diamond is ultimately found by Beigh Masters in a cyberspatial finale. Bhagmati thrusts the world’s most famous diamond into her dying womb. It is in her grave that they find the holder of the world of the seventeenth century. Bharati Mukherjee sees herself as a unique human being and gives message to her fellow female. In -The Holder Of The World-, she suggests two advantages of Women Liberation. Hannah and Bhagmati in -The Holder Of The World- recurrently defy estrangement in the society they live and get the answer in rejecting cultural stereotypes they develop the life of their own outside the home. The Salem Bibi provocates Masters Beigh to unreveal the mystery which surrounded her life and the diamond. Mukherjee devotes her attention to female issues in the historical times as well as in the contemporary society. Mukherjee and Master Beigh involve deeply in the Salem Bibi in making sense from the historical evidences because conventional answers no longer satisfy. They feel social and cultural change in a recursive process and women have to play steering role.

Chapter VI

Portayal Of Women In -Leave It To Me-

The protagonist is a Eurasian Orphan, Debbie Devi who is adopted by an upstate New York family of Italian Origin. Born in India and raised as an adopted child, Devi Dee travels through America to find her bio-mom. By the time she has arrived in San Francisco and taken a band of aging ex-hippies and a psychotic Vietnam Vet, her identity crisis looms large. It leads her to track down her bio-parents in Laxmipur, Devigaon, India, and the orphanage where she raised-the Gray Sisters–Soeuss Grises–Sore Grease-in Mount Abu. She learns from Fred, her hired detective, that her mother was the Hippie follower of a sex-age guru, and her father the founder of the ashram, serial killer Romeo Hawk Haque. The offspring of this unlikely liaison, Devi Dee-presumed missing or dead is saved by nuns and shipped abroad to America, where she is raised as the adopted child of the Di Martino family. Twenty three years later having graduated from Sunny, Albany, she sets out to seek her bio-mom in off-beat California. This novel makes the predicament of the protagonist crystal-clear, Mukherjee deals with the reality of -Time-Travel-. In -Leave It To Me- Mukherjee reverts to her earlier obsession with an exile’s agony.

Chapter-VII

Portrayal Of Women In -Desirable Daughters-

-Desirable Daughters- follow the diverging paths taken by three Calcutta-born sisters as they come of age in a changing world. Tara, Padma and Parvati were born into a wealthy Brahmin family presided over by their dothing father and their traditionalist mother. Intelligent and artistic, the girls are nevertheless constrained by a society with little regard for women. Their subsequent rebellion will lead them in different directions to different continents and through different circumstances that strain yet ultimately strengthen their relationship. Bharati mukherjee has written a remarkable novel that is both the portrait of a traditional Indian Brahmin family and a contemporary American story of a woman who is in many ways broken with tradition but still remains tied to her native country. This is about three Bengali sisters who grew up in Calcutta and eventually end up in three different corners of the globe leading three different lifestyles. One lives a comfortable life in a posh residential locality in Mumbai keeping herself busy in household chores. Another of the sister ends up New Jersey among the elite class of migrant Indians. The third ends up in the West in California Leading a more pedestrian life after getting a divorce from her business tycoon husband. It’s an interesting tale about how life puts us in different circumstances we hardly imagined ourselves in and how each of us overcomes the challenges that life poses us. -Desirable Daughters- is a melting pot of styles. It’s a middlebrove women’s novel (think an Indian Hannah and her sisters) ; a postcolonial tale life with meditations on belonging and exile, and a thriller, complete with a mysterious stranger and quirky cop. Throw in a touch of Hindu style magic realism and stir. Tara Chatterjee, the afformentioned narrator, is the youngest of three sisters from the wealthy Calcutta family trapped between the old world and the new. At nineteen she was married off to Bish Chatterjee, who became a Silicon Valley Billionare. Now pushing 40, tara is a divorcee living in San Francisco with her teenage son and her boyfriend, a Buddhist earthquake-proofer whose truck advertises him as the -Zen Master of Retro Fit-. Although she left Calcutta decades ago, Tara radar is always on alert, encoding names, manners, and accents whenever she encounters strangers of Indian descent. This ethnic antenna comes in hardy when young man named Chris Dey surfaces, claiming to be the illegitimate son of her eldest sister, Padma. Tara senses there is something fishy about him and call her riblings, hoping to clear up the mystery. These searching conversations with Padma (a multicultural performance artist in New Jersey) and Parvati (who lives in Bombay and, worries incessantly about crime) provide some of the funniest, most astute scenes in the novel. Mukherjee has perfect emotional pitch, nailing the conflicted, sometimes vicious dynamics among sisters. Tara initially describes her family as close ; in reality, she and her sisters routinely whitewash their sadness. -The rules of our transcontinental relationships are instituted, never acknowledged.- Tara admits at one point, – We accept that given the international phone rates, our personal defeats are too banal to waste money on.- When she tries to pump them for information on the mysterious Chris Day, they scold her for tainting their cloistered, halcyon childhood with scandal. After some sleuthing on Tara’s part, she discovers that her father, a religious Brahmin, forbade Padma from marrying her Christian boyfriend, Ronald Dey, she also learns that the man who claims to be Chris Dey may be an importer linked to an Indian gangster syndicate who is targeting Bish Chattrejee’s tech empire. This thriller plotline isn’t entirely convicing because Mukherjee doesn’t take it seriously, mainly using Chris Dey as a device for transporting the specters of the past into the present. She traces a fuzzy line back several generation. -to the decision of Ronald’s grandfather to convert to protestantism and gain favour from the British and lose status with the Hindus.- Or may be even farther back to Tara’s own great grandfather, an educated Bengali who turned his back on colonial society and become a born-again Hindu, setting her family on the path of orthodoxy and repression. From a respected writer of fiction comes a stirring novel of three Calcutta born women, two continents, and a perilous journey from the old world to the new. Mukherjee weaves together stories of the sister’s ancestors, their childhood memories, and dramastic scenes from India’s History. Chapter-VIII

Portrayal Of Women In -Tree Bride-

The -Tree Bride- takes up from her last novel, Desirable Daughters, ended. It’s a second in a trilogy. The protagonist, Tara Chatterjee, is a savvy, cosmopolitian world-traveller very taken with her priveledged life as a Silicon Valley magnate. But when her home is firebombed just as she may be reconciling with her ex, she begins to yearn for home and tradition. A trip back to India rekindles a desire to find her family’s ancestral roots and place in the history of pre-independent India. The novel begins on this note with the most American of all searches : the desire to trace one’s ancestry. Tara is fascinated by an ancestor : her almost namesake, Tara Lata, a five year old girl who was a victim of the archaic custom of child marriage-atradition even her father, a university graduate and lawyer, willingly follows. It is 1879, and Tara Lata’s wedding party is traveling through a dark jungle to rendezvous with the bridegroom’s family, who instead of greeting them hurls curses at the bride, calling her unlucky because the boy bridegroom had been bitten fatally by a snake. To save her from a life of a degradation, widowhood, and shame, Tara Lata’s father -marries- her to the God of the forest, and she becomes the legendary Tree Bride. The young girl retreats to her father’s house and makes it a refugee for the poor, the sick, and finally the fighters for Indian Independence. She is dragged from her home in 1944 by colonial authorities, who announce her death six days later. Mukherjee does not have an aunt like Tara in the family, but she says that -three were many Tara Lata’s married to trees, so that they could have a life on earth, a place in society where they would not be considered outcasts, and a place in Heaven. The ancient Hindus believed that widows are unlucky and would descend to hell.- With ayoung woman trying to find herself and how she fit into her place in the universe, the story traces the British Colonial rule in India, its contributions and its ultimate downfall. While she is struggling with the thought of getting back with her ex-husband and being pregnant with her child, Tara tries to understand her heritage and the actions of her ancestors which may and may not have contributed to the sum total of the person she has evolved into. Every action in the universe has an equal and opposite reaction, nothing in the universe ever gets lost ; everything is connected. The -Tree Bride- is a one person narrative of British history in India. A great deal of detail has gone into recreating the British men who left their homeland to fulfill what they believed was a higher purpose of instilling order and discipline in foreign lands. Mukherjee with her insightful understanding of women nature deep psychological analysis never really succeeds in bringing the deeds British men to life. But she does shine with her evocation of the city of her birth, the Brahmin society’s snobbery and in capturing the intricacies of Tara and her namesake -The Tree Bride-.

Chapter-IX

Portrayal Of Women In -The Short Stories Of Bharati Mukherjee-

Bharati Mukherjee has written two collections of short

stories namely -Darkness (1985)- and -The Middleman and Other Stories-

(1989). Mukherjee’s Darkness consists of twelve short stories, and -The

Middleman and Other Stories- comprises eleven short stories very varied in

theme and technique. In many short stories of Bharati Mukherjee the

protogoinst are woman who are married or divorced and have an inclination

to from relationships which terminate in several misadventure. These female

characters can be called the liberated women. They pick and mix with men

so freely and satisfy their lust for sensuality and then instead of stopping

their move on to form new arrangements. The traditional view of seeing

these love-relationships terminating in marital unions or well established

love-affairs is nowhere distinctly conceived. On the contrary, their

disorderly conduct and promiscuity raise doubts about their notions and

dream of immigration and settlement in the United State. But one would

certainly be moved by the pathetic situation of kids born of unstabilized

marriages or marriages breaking up too soon making the kids grow into

freaks and emotionally unbalanced individuals. From the traditional way of

thinking of non-American societies, the new world life embraced by the

immigrants may appear to be seriously deficient in a moral system. To be

completely liberated in matters of sex may create more problems than it may

solve. The family life in America may appear to be so very unsecure and

unstable.

Bharati Mukherjee’s concern with the processes of

effecting transformations of the protagoinsts and other immigrants into

American citizens. Each one of the stories in one way or another turns on the

theme of fulfillment which is brought about almost mechanically without

first developing an appropriate emotional or sentimental matrix out of which

the desire for a matrimonial or love-relationship might genuinely result.

Panna, the protagoinst of The Wife’s Story has walked out of the traditional

Hindu Marriage, left Ahemdabad for Menhattan where she experiences

freedom and individuality. She learns a great deal from the way charity

chin’s lurid love life has -replaced inherited notions of marital duty.-

-The Middleman-, the title story is about the dangerous

career and fortunate survival of the half caste Maria narrated from the point

of an Iraqi observer participant. Mukherjee’s next story -The Tenant’ is

more successful and artistically finished than some of the earlier ones

discussed here, Maya Sanyal, a Ph. D. in Comparative Literature teaches

World Literature at the University Of Northern Iowa. For Maya, -no folly is

ever lost-. For , History is a net, the kind of safety net traveling trapeze

artists fall into, when inattentive or clumsy. Mukherjee’s Jasmine destined to

be developed into a novel a later date, It begins to be a matter of fact way.

Jasmine came to Detroit from Port Of Spain, Trinidad, by way of Canada.

Angella is the short story in Mukherjee’s Darkness , the

short story collection. Angella, the protogoinst tells us the sad story of an

immigrant from Bangladesh who can only dream of love, domesticity,

babies and all the comforts that a doctor’s wife can possibly enjoy in the

new world. Mukherjee’s second short story in this volume -The Lady From

Lucknow- is ironical in theme and technique. Beginning the story with a

surrealistic picturing of a broken heart from the point of view of a small and

possibly shocked girl of four. Mukherjee develops the theme of passionate

love into a major cultural paradex as a Muslim protogoinst matures into a

young and voluptus woman married to an engineer manager name Iqbal Iry.

-The World according to her.- Mukherjee’s next story the protogoinst Ratna

herself the offspring of an international marriage in 1936 (she had a

Czechoslovak mother and a Bengali father), is married to a liberal white

Canadian, probably a WASP. The next story entitled -The Father’ deals with a tricky situation in which the cultural and enthic encounter is not between

individuals but attitudes acquired as well as preserved ; between reason and

superstition. The Indian immigrants-the Bhowmicks are sufficiently

acclutured but not fully assimilated. The parents are horried to knowthat

their brilliant plain daughter, Babil, an Electrical Engineer wants to have a

baby by artificial insemination outside Wedlock. When confronted by the

-fantasising’ father and the shocked mother, the pregnant Babil replies ;

-Who needs a man? She hissed. The father of my baby is a bottle and

syringe. Men louse up your lives. I just want a baby.- -orbiting is a story of

great significance. When brent listens to Ro’s experiences in his home

country Afghanistan , he is for the first time exposed to Third World

Passion. Ro’s beloved Rindy comes to know for the first time that words like

Kandhar and Pamir are not Polish words but important names associated with Afghanistan.

Conclusion

Mukherjee’s female characters are real, modern lifelike. They are typical representatives of young woman particularly of The Third World countries who cherish the dream of emigrating to America for higher education and higher wages, and then after arrival there, aspire to settle there permanently. Their situations and the difficulties they face are also realistically portrayed. In nearly, all stories there is a fixed pattern. In the first part of each story, the focus is on narrating the situation of an immigrant who is in the process of immigration or settling down and in the second part the protagoinst is invariably given to making love with a partner of the opposite sex who is rooted in the American soil. There is little or no consideration that the sexual adventure of the female protagoinst with the male member of may amount to adultery or cause serious protest from the housewife. In fast, while such adulterous transactions are carried on freely and even promiscuously, the housewives take them as normal behaviour. The moral norms do not exist at all, or that sexual ptomiscuity is a socially recognized fact. The world then appears so ordained as to give, both man and woman equal dignity and equal freedom. It would then appear to be a world in which neither of them is seriously restrained or bound by obligations towards the children or to the collective family life. The stories have the form of the sonnet in the sense that while the first part develops the situation, the second part suddenly takes a decisive through expected turn culminating in the passionate, amoral adventure. By this sudden switch over to thesensual romantic theme, the story seem to develop a tendency towards the pornographic.

POEMS OF HARPRASAD SHARMA POSTED AND EDITED BY DR. RAM SHARMA IN 2007 DISPLAY OF MANKIND

Those days are gone , When love and compassion was shown, Now it is display of mankind, Intrigues and conspiracies without mind, Where such kinds of love will be found, He receives his friends in many a way, Where sun can be shown of hope but not a single ray, A figure of clay will a mundane game play, Where such a literary figure will be find, Who will show such kind of display of mankind ————————————————————————-

BUBBLE BY HARPRASAD SHARMA EDITED- DR. RAM SHARMA False attachment to worldly things, Nothing but pain and sorrow brings, Cling not to earthly things that seem, to sages like an empty dream, This body which is made of dust, Will one day like a bubble burst A frame which is subject to decay, Why grieve for that in such a way?

DR. RAM SHARMA C-26, SHRADHAPURI PHASE2, KANKERKHERA, MEERUT, U.P.

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Ugg Boots for Babie

As all parents know, through the cold winter months, great care must be taken to keep babies as warm as possible. Feet are a main source of heat loss from the body, so everyone, not just babies, should take the time to make sure they are keeping their feet well wrapped up. Rather than wearing shoes or boots with new man-made materials, a traditional approach can be even better. Sheepskin has been regarded as one of the best ways to keep heat in for hundreds of years. Ugg boots made with genuine grade A sheepsin keep heat in while allowing air to circulate, making them perfect to keep your baby’s feet warm while preventing overheating in the summer months.

The comfort level of sheepskin boots is also far higher than that of shoes with man-made textiles. The soft texture is perfect for the soft skin of your baby’s or even your own feet, and Ugg boots can be worn without socks for ultimate comfort throughout the year.

Uggs can also be worn by older children. A variety of colours of classic ugg boots are available for kids, and their stylish design makes sure kids will want to wear the boots as they will be seen as the most fashionable kids in the playground, while you can rest assured that your children are warm enough.

You should, however, discourage your children from splashing through puddles while wearing their ugg boots! Sheepskin does not cope well with wet weather. It can happen that rain starts unexpectedly though, so if a situation where ugg boots get muddy or dirty occurs, it is best to deal with the problem gently. Harsh shampoos and washing powders, the washing machine, and hot water are all no-goes. Use cool water to wash the boots gently, and if necessary a gentle conditioner. You could stuff the boots with newspaper to help them keep their shape while drying.

You can find Ugg boots for babies and children in a variety of places on the web.

Variation Amongst Mirror Image Good Quality And Reputable Replica Handbags

Any lady vogue is definitely incomplete with no classy designer handbag. Any designer handbags turns on the allure. The designer hand bag is normally meticulously hand made and every insignificant job is offered the utmost focus. The pad is normally decided on by designer along with entirely cut to present that fascinating look. Its exceptional to locate gals ward robe that does not have a sophisticated purse. The word, that everything comes with a price attached is alas correct for the attractive custom purses. The worth is just too big high to afford. Your replica bags make the perfect fix for your problem.

The actual counterfeit handbags are called as replica bags, look alike bags, knock offs, faux bags, fake handbags, etc. These are the actual replicates of the authentic designer handbags.The actual counterfeit hand bags can be found in several qualities. Some are so shabby imitations that they’ll end up being acknowledged far away. Some are superior to reproduce the authentic designer hand bags and have only minor dissimilarities recognizable with near examination. On the other hand, a few of the counterfeits are diligently designed and pain stakingly designed to resemble the original designer handbags in all aspects. These are really hard to tell apart from the original.

This kind of exceptional counterfeits are classified as the mirror image replica handbags.Almost all of the replica handbags are manufactured within the The ussr, Korea and The far east. Commonly, the replica handbag doesnt have the same leather as the original one. The components such as chains as well as buttons are of lower quality in case of the replica handbags. The slice of the handbag as well as the stitching are distinct guidelines among the replica handbags and the genuine ones.This specific parameter how ever become inadequate against a mirror image quality replica bags. The actual mirror image quality replica bag provides 99% to 99.9% resemblance with all the original one.

The fabric of the genuine handbag, the hardware, the exact cut, authenticity card as well as the stitching style is integrated in a mirror image quality replica bag. The good quality replica bags are not very easily acknowledged but the mirror image replica handbag is almost impossible to recognize. The high quality as well as attention to details while copying is extreme in case of mirror image replica purses, than the good quality replica handbags.

Due to the higher material as well as labour charge; the cost of mirror image replica bags are much higher than the good quality replica bags. Nevertheless, the mirror image quality is every worth as well as is show off lessly maintained by females throughout the globe.

Why Air Con Hire is Essential for Fashion Show Organisers

These days, there is a lot more to organising a fashion show than hiring a venue, a catwalk and some suitable models. Shows are sophisticated events with accentuated lighting, pyrotechnics, music and other effects being expected by paying attendees and invited guests. Major shows are usually an annual event for a designer a chance for them to display their designs to the world. It is not surprising, then, that the events are lavish.

Air conditioning is also a fashion show essential, especially during the summer. At any time of year, attendees simply being too hot to enjoy the show inside a venue is something fashion designers and event organisers are anxious to avoid. There also needs to be a comfortable temperature in the photographers area, and backstage, which is usually crammed with models, dressers, the designer’s team, and make-up artists.

A variety of venues According to the Daily Telegraph newspaper, the fashion industry is worth over 20 billion each year to the UK economy. The industry is said to contribute as much as 40 billion when its wider contribution is taken into account, including tourism and related businesses. Some designers seek to outdo each other, often holding their shows in the most unlikely locations. In 2012, venues used for London Fashion week include Battersea Power Station, The Royal Opera House, The Old Sorting Office (New Oxford Street), and The Old Eurostar Terminal (Waterloo Station).

The advantages of renting air con Adequate and reliable air conditioning is fundamental at any fashion show venue. There are several benefits to hiring air conditioning for event organisers:

– Hired units will always be serviced before being released to event organisers. This means they will then work to maximum efficiencies and be less likely to breakdown.

– Event organisers can always receive the newest unit available, instead of purchasing dated equipment that may not be as efficient.

– Experienced air con hire personnel will know exactly which unit will best serve each particular venue and the ancillary equipment that may be required.

– Rented units are generally mobile, and therefore can be moved around a venue as required

– There are no long-term storage issues: units can simply be rented for fashion shows as and when required, with the rental specialist collecting and returning them to their depot once the show is over.

Planning is the key At a venue, whether a fixed air con system needs extra capacity, or where there is no fixed system at all, hired air conditioning is proven to be the ideal solution and is best arranged by planning in-advance.

Getting in touch with an established air con hire specialist and discussing mobile unit options in advance of a fashion show will bring peace of mind to the event organisers.

Gas Masks Add Electric Feel To Rave Fashion

Many individuals may not see gas masks as much of a style assertion, but to clubbers and ravers, gas masks are a path of expression and creativity.
What are rave gas masks utilized for? As suggested, they are worn as a piece of an outfit at rave parties.
individuals who hang at these events attempt to be as original and creative as they wish to stand out of the crowd and truly make an assertion about what they are presenting.

The kid that attends these rave gatherings relate to a special level where the environs is a merger of art, music, different strokings of lighting and vivid hues and an electrifying ambience of smoke discharges and artificial fog.
To wear a mask isn’t a manner to hide your face. Its a path to show the true you
Rave gas masks create a style statement worn alone or when essential to complement the outfit of the raver
It is easy to add some sparkle and neon pigment to spotlight one at a rave gathering.
Gas marks are accessible at select stores that deal specialist items. It is possible to order them online.

Why would individuals wish to wear them? It can be for a multitude of reasons. To individuals who wish to dress in goth garb, it can contribute an ingredient of intrigue and add to the vividness of their expression.
There is no wrong way to dress out at a rave gathering, and buffs of the gas masks enjoy the unusual and strange appearance that it renders them.
Many individuals prefer to wear the gas masks simple with no modifications and others wish to customize them to couple whatsoever getup they are going to get into. They can ofttimes be customised to match strange accoutrements and clothing, as well as hair and make-up.
They can be decked with a number of unusual stuffs and colours, and can look like anything that they desire them to appear as.

Much exertion goes into designing the dress worn at a rave gathering.
You can connect any of the groups online and talk over the unique trends and designings. When seeking to look like a specific persona or to present a particular persona, one goes to lengths to mix and harmonise their dress and utilize accessories and jewellery to set them off.
Gas marks might not be best-selling with everyone though Many purpose it to depict a particular persona or style. Employ a friends help in picking out the correct type of gas mask for your gathering.
one can purchase a gas mask and make it as fashionable as they wish it to go by utilizing the proper material to cause it come alive. A Gas Mask may be your fashion statement.

The Secrets Of A Chanel 2.55 Handbag

Recently I was fortunate to visit the exhibition The Secrets of the Chanel Handbag held at Chanels New York flagship store on 57th St it was only on for a limited run from May 8-16 (I am hoping that the exhibition will travel and visit us in London! The exhibit demonstrated the construction and history of the companys iconic 2.55 bags. The exhibition had 7 flat screen TVs, each screen showed the 7 steps in making the handbag, (cut, quilting, assembly, shaping, turning out, chain and leather, packing) it was all fascinating and mesmerizing! Basically the cutting and stitching is all done by specially designed machine tools and 80% of the total production time is spent on the prep work involving over 180 stages. Once all the components are prepped up all the pieces are then put together by hand by Chanels own master craftsmen which involve over 10 hours skilled work. The bags are sewn together inside out and then it was passed onto the next person who specialized in delicately turning them back out – in keeping with Mademoiselle Chanels firm belief in the importance of hidden luxury: the inside should be as good as the outside. As a result, the same amount of care still goes into the lining of each bag as goes into its exterior. Once the bag is put together they then screw in all the hardware and grommets etc. The chain was made last and when the bag was finished it was dusted and polished before beautifully wrapping it in tissue paper and dust bag.

The CHANEL classic handbag was the first to be worn and not hand held since the role of women was changing the traditional handbags at the time were too impractical. As a result the shoulder strap made its debut in the world of fashion.

I didnt see other archive bags through I think that would have been really cool to have seen the very first CHANEL 2.55! Or maybe it would look how it is today or how much would it have been worth???

Today the Chanel 2.55 purse is just as much an It bag as it always was. In 2005, in celebration of the bag’s 50th anniversary, Lagerfeld revived the design exactly as Mademoiselle Chanel had made it, and the reissue proved even more popular than its original. Lagerfeld named the iconic interlocking double C look Mademoiselle Lock as Chanel never married.

Stylish and classy Tag Heuer sunglasses

Tag Heuer Sunglasses offer a unique combination of class, style and sportiness. Tag Heuer is the brand which was better known for its watches till the time they did not launch the coolest range of sunglasses. Better known for its celebrity factor, Tag Heuer sunglasses are sported by almost all Hollywood and Bollywood celebs. Celebrities from Tom Cruise to Shah Rukh Khan have been found sporting a Tag Heuer sunglass at many public events. Infact, the Tag Heuer sunglasses are gaining popularity in the international sports circuit with every passing day. Sports icons like Yao Ming and Maria Sharapova have also been associated with Tag Heuers advertising campaign.

Tag Heuer offers a wide range of sunglasses differing by frame, fit and their lens type as well. Tag Heuer makes its sunglasses in four to five sizes which fit everyone from average to narrow faces. Many reviews of Tag sunglasses firmly claim that the brand lives up to its legacy in this product line as well. Tag Heuer sunglasses are specially designed for certain set of activities which make them even more popular. Tag offers a wide range of products for each purpose. An outdoor person can get an apt Tag Heuer sunglass for his outdoor activities. Tag sunglasses ensure appropriate care of your eye when you are out in the sun. Tag Heuer sunglasses offer three layers of protective carbon coating which helps protecting the eye from UV rays transmission.

Tag Heuer sunglasses also come in a wide range of contrast lenses. From silver to light green, Tag Heuer flash lenses increase contrast which make them compatible for driving on any type of day.

Tag Heuer also offers High mountain lenses for high altitude environments. These Tag Heuer glasses are specially polarized to reduce light transmission. Watersport lenses from Tag Heuer are one of the most popular range of the brand. This hydrophobic range from Tag Heuer is perfect for all kinds of activities in and about water.

Tag Heuer sunglasses are made up of lightweight alloy which comprises of Titanium, Magnesium and Aluminium which make them comfortable yet very stylish eyewear.

Oakley Sunglasses VS. Your Standard Pair

One of the most practical pieces of fashion to grace the commercial world are sunglasses. Invented in order to prevent strong light and UV rays from reaching the eyes, sunglasses have come a long way since their introduction. The practical functions sunglasses offer have increased to include the shielding of identity, crying eyes, or even to disguise yourself in periods of mourning or depression. Sunglasses have featured in film and movie stars are almost never seen without them. Over the years there have been a vast array of different sunglass styles for people to choose from and this has seen the sunglass become one of the most important pieces of fashion in history.

Being in the 21st century we are spoilt with so much choice of sunglass style to choose from. Lucky for us however we are able to make better informed decisions on what style we should buy for you see all the sunglasses you on the market have some story behind them. Famous and iconic people within history have embraced sunglass fashion. Take the Teashade style, a style made with thin wire rims and circular often nicknamed “John Lennon glasses” or “Ozzy Glasses” after Ozzy Osbourne this style of sunglass can be bought from many major sunglass brands.

Another familiar style is the Aviator. Aviators are sunglasses with an oversized teardrop-shaped lens and thin metal frames. First appearing in 1936 by Ray Ban for US military aviators, aviator shades have had much success in fashion from the 1960s right up to the present day having been seen on celebrities in films like Top Gun, where Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise sported them. Other notable wearers include Jackass star Johnny Knoxville and rock legend Freddie Mercury.

Then there are Wayfarer shades. Like Aviators, Wayfarer sunglasses were originally design for pilots. Introduced by Ray Ban Wayfarer is thought to be one of the most popular and best selling shades to date. Made popular in the 1950s and 60s by celebrities such as James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, John F. Kennedy and Andy Warhol. Wayfarer shades have had incredible staying power in the fashion industry and after a decline in the 1990s is making a strong comeback presently with designers such as Gucci.

Some more modern sunglasses that are very fashionable are sport sunglasses and goggles. Made with innovative materials such as fibre glass and titanium as well as rubber for added comfort these types of glasses come in wrap around styles and are manufactured in order to withstand forces that come into play when undertaking sport such as cycling. Sport sunglasses were made popular by Oakley who offers a huge range of different styles and colours both in frames and lenses. Oakley sunglasses have been made popular through Hollywood film featuring heavily in films such as X-men series, Mission: Impossible 2, and Blade 2. Oakley is also the sole company that Lance Armstrong has a life time deal with.

There are vast amounts of sunglass styles and makes on the market and choosing the correct pair is important. Whether you are buying sunglasses for purely practical reasons or for fashion you have to pick a pair that suits you which means understanding what type of shade best suits your face shape. If you stick to some of the big brands like Oakley and Ray Ban sunglasses then you will seldom go wrong. Big brands give that added sense of style and they last a lot longer.

Remember no matter what style you buy look after them carefully because if they do go out of fashion it will not be long before they are in fashion again.

How To Buy Used Clothing Online (part 1)

If you want to buy used clothing, then you have joined the ranks of many other fashion-savvy women who know exactly what they want, and get them without breaking the bank. People buy used clothing all the time; however, when you buy used clothing online, it is not the same as doing so from vintage shops and garage sales. To get the most out of your experience when you buy used clothing via the Internet, read through the pointers below:
Value, rather than price, is the key. When you buy used clothing online, you do get to save money. However, the best thing about buying used clothing is that for a certain price, you may become the proud owner of something worth so much more than what you paid for. When you buy used clothing online, you can avail of a used designer item for the same price as a brand new non-branded item.
Watch out for fake designer goods. A lot of merchants online will try to pass off fake designer items and replicas as used designer items. Before you buy used clothing online, always do some follow-up research. Most of the time, its easy to spot fake goods if you take the time to read through the item description. Feel free to ask the seller about where the item was bought or if the proof of purchase is available.
When it comes to sizes, bigger is better than smaller. When you want to buy used clothing online, expect that the item you want may not come in other sizes. If you have to buy something that isnt in your size, opt for bigger sizes instead of smaller ones. It is easier to tailor an oversized dress to fit you compared to a dress thats too small for you.
Avoid outdated items. People who buy used clothing should steer clear of items that look too dated. When you buy used clothing online, you dont want to end up looking like your grandmother in her teens. Although vintage items are appealing, keep your look fresh by mixing old, used clothes with new, timely pieces.
Dont expect to find something in just one go. When you buy used clothing online, you may need to sift through several online stores and perhaps visit again the next day. Remember that you are looking for great finds but so is everyone else who wants to buy used clothing like you do. When you dont find anything special today, try again tomorrow. This will increase your chances of finding something worth keeping.
[This is part 1 of a 2-part series. To be continued.]

How To Choose The Best Plus Size Prom Dresses To Suit You

Are you worried about your prom night since your plus size body shape? Many plus size girls have difficulties in choosing the most suitable dress that flatter the fuller figures. Never let your size set barriers to show your fashion statement and personality. Plus size prom dresses can be stunning too. Therere a wide selections of plus size prom dresses to choose from which flatter your figure best. Here are some hints for you:

Before make purchase in stores, you need to measure yourself correctly especially for your bust, waist and hips. Keep them in mind and then go shopping around. If you have a fuller bust, you need to choose some kind of styles that keep the attention away from your bust. Be avoided to some shining fabrics which would make you look fatter. A halter neck or a beaded dress would be good options. If you are worried about the arms, half length or full length sleeves can be selected or just wear a shawl to complement your dress. If you are a pear shaped girl, the A line skirt would work well in you. A skirt or a ball gown would be best choice to skim over the fuller hips.

Black is a widely choice for plus size prom dresses. The classic black chiffon gowns would create a slim feeling for every girl. A sweet little black dress would be the essential piece in every girls wardrobe. It could be suitable for different occasions. If you think full black is too dreary in proms, you can choose the black empire waist dress with a white skirt. Or choose the black and white dress which also makes you feel slim. Keep the color simple. Be avoided to some bright and complex colors. But you can add some shining accessories to complement your look such as a beaded necklace, a silver bangle or some hair pins.

Other tips you need to consider that buy a dress that just in your body size. Never buy some one that is smaller and promise to lose weight before the prom night. Dont give too much pressure to yourself. Plus size girl also can be eye-catching and shining in proms with decent outfits. But if you have not prepared for the dress before the prom, dont do the last minute shopping. Plus size dresses are harder to find the most suitable one if you have limited time.