Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part F (2025)

V S. Naipaul, the diasporic writer plays a paramount role in postcolonial literature. He feels the necessity to define a personal identity in one’s own life and therefore he creates determined characters in his fiction that expose their loss of identity in various ways. Through his works, he has depicted the rootlessness of the marginalized people who live with fractured identity. This rootlessness is something that never stops to haunt Naipaul and he never stop to remind himself about his origins in his work. He has exposed the experiences of lost, rootlessness, homelessness basically through his male characters and has avoided any examination of his female characters. Even the role and the position of the individual women are not significant enough in his fiction. They are disfigured, defeated, deprived and dislocated. However, his female characters are not less important in this sense that they are equal to those male characters who silently suffer for the availing condition. This paper is an attempt to establish to what extent the woman’s invisibility and marginalization is justify, to foreground the miserable conditions of the lives of subaltern female characters and their struggle as depicted in A House for Mr. Biswas. His female characters are treated as peripherals in the works and therefore they are denied an enabling environment. Feminism and postcolonial literary theory have been concerned for the critical analysis of the present study and these theories provide the methodological reading of the text.