Half Girlfriend: A Novel of Helplessness, Hardships and Success

Abstract

Chetan Bhagat is the novelist whose area of concern is the length and breadth of the entire country especially of the urban areas. He uses different techniques in his writings to write about the India. He writes to free India from the conservative attitudes of the people and false myths. He hopes through his writings to dissolve boundaries between people of different backgrounds, cultures, communities and different spaces. The writers of the country tried their best to explore the struggles and the challenges of new generation but Chetan Bhagat is chiefly one of the writers whose novels are the representation of such issues. The novel, Half Girlfriend portrays the true picture of Indian society in contemporary times. The paper explores the struggles of the characters and how they pass through such hardships to get success.

Keywords: Multiculturalism, New generation, Inferiority complex, Individuality