The Feminist Approaches in The Intrusion of Shashi Deshpande

Shashi Deshpande displays the feminist approaches in her short story entitled ‘The Intrusion’. The Indian society is male dominated society. The psychology of understanding is different between men and women. Attitudes of men towards women are also different. Men are conscious about their rational attitude while women are conscious of emotional attitudes. They give importance to their attitudes and the result can be seen in their behaviours differently. This is the root of misunderstanding to each other. The author has focused the condition of married life of a couple who goes for honeymoon after getting married. Husband wants just sex nothing else in honeymoon while a wife longs for company and mutual understanding. The wife wants to understand her husband but husband is not interested in sharing his life’s events. He thinks that honeymoon is for enjoying sex while his wife desires for talking and behaving in friendly manner. The purpose of honeymoon for both is different in their minds. Sex is heart of life for men while sex is part of life for women. Wife is forced to have sex with her husband though she wants to know her husband first but she cannot do anything. Most of results of arranged marriages are failure in giving importance to emotional attitudes of wives in honeymoons. The author has focused the feminist approach in this short story called ‘The Intrusion’.