Women in the mystic masseur of v.s. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul is doyen among postcolonial writers. His fiction and non-fiction is a record of his personal views and experience. His novels deal with the struggle of Indo-Caribbean people who are caught in the web of socio-cultural and ethnic forces of heterogeneous Caribbean society. He adopted the western form of writing novel, but his fiction is replete with ethos of Indian community in Trinidad. Naipaul’s early fiction is full of humour, kind irony. All the protagonists in his early fiction are male and female characters play peripheral action. The women are portrayed as victims under patriarchal system, and as marginalized victims. Therefore, I have chosen The Mystic Masseur, one of the early novels of Naipaul, to explore how V.S. Naipaul portrayed women. This paper ‘Portrayal of Women in The Mystic Masseur’ deals with how V.S. Naipaul portrayed and cornered women as peripheral characters.