Mother-Daughter Relationship in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters

Abstract

Mother-daughter relationships are long-lasting affiliations that have the potential of influencing adult development in significant ways. It is a relationship which requires that the language of feeling should flow between a mother and daughter. Gilbert and Webster observe “Each mother has to transmit the rules of femininity to her daughter(s) to help them survive in the world she knows it”(“ The Mother/ Daughter Relationship in Young Adult Fiction” 1).