The early Indian fiction was greatly influenced by the Bengal Renaissance. The likes of Bankim Chandra, Sarat Chandra, and Rabindranath created some timeless characters to bring out the prevailing social issues- education for women, extermination of child marriage: all through their focus was on women's emancipation. Female protagonists like Sultana, Prafulla and Charulata delineated these issues. Some of them either had to leave their in-laws' or could only dream. However, Charulata at last endeavors to free herself from the harness and move beyond. Autodidactic Charu showed her intense passion for reading the greats of her time which allowed her to be the nexus amongst all the early Indian female protagonists. Her "becoming" of a self-possessed woman from a child-bride; her zeal to indite stories helped her to connect to the world she desired to live. She wrote only because she wanted to create and not to be published. In this she demonstrated her moral and intellectual growth. Charu thrived apolitically, in aloneness - being a rebellious lover. Eventually when Charu's psyche bridged the gap of her "being" and "becoming" through her engagement with literature, her husband and paramour both feared to accept it. Hence, my paper seeks to explore how Charulata despite her status as a wife in a bhadralok family was able to construct the bridge between her home and the world.