ABSTRACT
This chapter intends to investigate how the writer of the memoir under consideration is able to realize the agenda she had set out for herself. The theoretical turn towards post-structuralism has made it impossible for the reader of any text to ignore the polyphony inherent in it by the virtue of it being a linguistic enterprise. Arathi Menon’s divorce memoir Leaving Home with Half a Fridge also adopts the latter strategy when it comes to dealing with the cause that led up to the event that forms the fulcrum of her narrative. The sentiments that Menon expresses in these lines indicate the premium the Indian middle-class associates with institution of family, and importance of progeny in giving meaning to a life. A single woman living in rural India would not be able to have the kind of life Menon has briefly described in the extract quoted.
