Gender, Caste, and Class: The Fragmentary Social Inclusion in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

Abstract Booker prize winning novel of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things is a novel with microcosm of the complex process of emotional, psychological and social as well as moral development. It shows the interrelationship of individual with society which shows the symbolic suffering of the people and the problems of holistic development. Arundhati Roy depicts the amalgamation of past and present i.e. memory and present with the experimental structure of language to show the multifaceted nature of human development. The psychological disintegration of the twins Estha and Rachel in their adult lives from childhood trauma, while Ammu's struggle between personal desires and social constraints depicts the fragmented journey of personality development. It is the humble attempt to show the fractured identities and their journey for survive. Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning Novel the God of Small Things is a classic example of this.