The focus of my thesis is to explore the Indian women’s experiences in the three novels of Anita Desai, Fire on the Mountain, Clear Light of Day and Fasting, Feasting. Based on the investigation of women’s experiences in the two major spheres that is the private or domestic and the public sphere, examine how their spatial existence and movement are constrained by the patriarchal ideologies enforced by men in the community. Also investigate the interaction between oppression, suppression and self-determination experienced by women in both the domestic and public spheres. As India is still governed by traditional values, women find it difficult to escape from their gendered roles as mother, daughter and wife. If any attempts are made by them to transgress into the public sphere and to seek equal status with men, they have to face isolation or self-destruction. Here, in the novels, we see women’s marginalization through the use of third person narration, the female characters’ accounts of their past memories and the use of narrative voices of the female characters. What I will like to argue is that though attempts have been made by women to escape from the patriarchal society, they cannot achieve total independence and liberation. Personal adjustments have to be made by women to connect themselves to the community so as to avoid being isolated and estranged.