Sarah Jeannette Duncan’s A Mother in India Patriarchal Victorian Men Create Monstrous Victorian Women 706 Words A Mother in India, as a story depends on the facade of appearance and the reality of emotional abandonment within a male dominated & Victorian society. Duncan’s point is that Victorian men create monstrous Victorian women. Relationships of any emotional worth are rendered impossible between Helena and her daughter Cecily because of a life long separation imposed by the …showed first 75 words of 686 total…

…showed last 75 words of 686 total…is truth to the story, but it’s lack of humour and it’s absence of love puts a hopeful purpose to the category of fiction. Bibliography Endnotes Duncan, Sara Jeannette, "A Mother In India," The Pool In The Desert, (Penguin Books Canada Ltd., 2801 John street Markham Ontario, Canada, 1984) page 5. "All further references to this work will be from this edition and will be parenthetically noted by page numbers throughout the text of this essay."