... an accident."" While she was in the midst of the most momentous infatuation of her life, she met Leonce and he immediately fell head over heels in love with her. Leonce courted Edna "with an earnestness and an ardor which left nothing to be desired- and his "absolute devotion to her- pleased her. ... closing the portals forever behind her upon the realm of romance and dreams."" Just as she does not feel any genuine love or passion for her husband, Edna also did not feel any love for her children. To her, they are just a burden and an extra responsibility. Instead of missing them while the...

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... rigid, usually waspish, and all too often brutal, standards of a mother-in-law. Only after the children are raised and married off does a woman begin to enjoy the fruits of love " from the children, now parents themselves, who gratefully realize what she gave them, and from a husband whose years if not his attitudes force him into co-dependence as his ... herself voluntarily surrendered to the ideal of self-sacrifice. Indian womanhood and all its facets are portrayed significantly in Kamala Markandaya's novel 'Nectar in a Sieve'.This image of the unsullied, selfless Indian woman is prim...

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