The Fourth Daughter: Subhdra Sen Gupta
The Fourth Daughter is a short story that focusses on the problem areas regarding the plight of girl child, patriarchal mindset and regressive traditions which have chained women in our society tightly and have prevented them to break those chains mostly unconsciously. The irony is girls have learned to accept discrimination and many embrace it and successfully transplant them in their own girl children to continue this inhumanely chain of inequality. The story was written by Indian English woman author, Subhdra Sen Gupta in 1992. The story focusses on the theme of the story or the propaganda than the characterisation. The idea behind writing this story was to bring a subtle inherent perspective inquisition and change in the minds of the readers. It is a story about the rich, priviledged, affluent Seth family. Radha, the daughter-in-law have yet again gave birth to a girl child, this news have brought withered sadness and rain of gloom with it. On top of that newborn have took upon th