Meatless Days Presents The Picture Of Third World Women

Women Persona in Meatless Days Meatless Days presents the picture of third world women, as a silenced community, a community that is so marginalized that its existence has become almost meaningless ; ‘There are no women in Pakistan.’
In this autobiographical sort of writing Sara introduces some female characters, whom she knew so well both internally and externally. She shows us not only their social side but also the working of their mind and the unsaid pangs of their soul that help us to position them in such an order as ;
Feminine
Feminist
Female
An important aspect of this discussion is that her characters are not bound in these categories forever, they develop and evolve, and sometimes move from one category of women to the other. This is a very natural phenomena, as society always demands a women to fit herself in the roles that are prescribed for her at the different stages of her life. Juggling between these different roles ,she forgets her true identity as a women. Sara’s grandmother is a conservative woman,a feminine charcter, who bore all the burden of life as a woman and her deformed backbone is a metaphor of distorted womanhood;
By the time I knew her, Dai with her flair of drama had allowed life to sit so heavily on her back that her spine wilted and froze into a perfect curve.
Then there is Mamma, who once asserted herself as a feminist and left her own country and people to marry a man after her own heart and her own will, but later she resigned into a feminine role by accepting the stereotype role of a house wife who is of course not as privileged as her husband is ,in a typical Pakistani society..What a transition !
Similarly Sara’s friend MUstakori ,who enjoys various names and various continental identities and gives the air of being a very bold and liberal feminist ,is at heart a feminine who is ready to acknowledge and mimic the very mode of identity formation , society expects from her. Throughout the