Attempt a critical analysis of the story ‘A Mother in India.’

“A Mother in India” deals with the unique problem of a mother who reunites with her daughter after twenty one years, but feels no maternal instincts. It is a position which would do any modem feminist proud, though it was written at the turn of the century. It is rare to find a woman at the beginning of the twentieth century bold enough to state her stand’ which goes contrary to the established and expected social conventions.

Even today, We are not used to reading about mothers refusing to accept their maternal responsibilities in the name of personal independence. Helena Farnham has to send her daughter to England because the Farnhams were ‘sodden poor’. Right at the beginning of the story, one gets a feeling that Cecily was an unwanted child, “but we both knew that it was abnormal not to love her a great deal, more than life immediately and increasingly; and we applied ourselves honestly to do it”.

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