![]() ![]() Consequently, they have power to commodify women relegating them as a second class human being the non- man. They have power to handle their property, they have power to sell their women, they have power to threat, torture and disgrace the women, and they have power to consume and mataterialize women. Though they are from lower class, whatever they own comes direct under their possession even their women too. Throughout the novel, they emerge as power holder. None of them have courage to revolt and to go against this ‘power’ because they know that if they attempt so, they either violated severely or throw out on the street to starveĪnother powerful agent, in the novel, for the commodification of women, is the men. Either they are knowingly or unknowingly trapped in the state of commodification only for the sake of money. ![]() ![]() And many others are there only for the sake of money and family. Pushpa is also continuing that profession in spite of her poor health and advanced age because she needs money to rear her two children. Monica is in brothel because she has small daughter and other family members to take care, though at last, they discard her from their family. Lakshmi is sold because her family has not enough money to survive though her stepfather expends that money in gambling and alcohol. Here, most of the female characters suffer from the economic crisis. Patricia McCormick’s Novel Sold presents ‘money’ and ‘men’ are the two powerful manipulators of the socio-economic ‘power’ in the outer patriarchal world. ![]()
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