Anita Desai is one of the most outstanding Indian woman Novelists. She is known as the promulgator of the Indian psychological Novel. She has ushered in the Psychological Novel in Indian Literature. English Fiction among women writer's she has written thirteen Novel, all these Novels in different forms present the concept of psychological conflict. Anita Desai introduced the genre of psychological Novels in English Literature. The focus in her work is on the character's women in particular and the inner world they inhabit. She Employed Psychological realism in her first Novel "Cry and Peacock in 1963". Desai’s female characters are generally neurotic and highly sensitive. In her novels most of her female characters are unsatisfied, unhappy, and frustrated with the restrictions of the patriarchal society. They try to escape from their bondages and in the process get themselves mentally bruised. Her treatment of female characters, her feminist approach, analysis of gender bias and discrimination are seen in most of her novels.