Anita Desai explores the psychic depths of her female characters and portrays them as individuals who alone face a fierce struggle for identity. Carefully avoiding association with any feminist movement, she makes clear that her concern as an artist is with individual men and women. Sincere to her principles as an artist, Desai, in her novels captures that incomplete and apparently meaningless mass of reality that surrounds her and tries to discover its meaning by going below the surface and trying to illuminate those depths until they become a mere reflection of the visible . world. The thematic and technical aspects in Anita Desai's novels are not isolated entities. They are interconnected at many levels of structure and consistency. The theme acts as a skeleton that incorporates the writer's entire life perspective by making use of situations and scenes that are peculiar only to her. The mottos chosen in the clear light of day are taken from the poetry of Emily Dickson and TS Eliot (Gopal, 2010). They let us know that this will be a novel about memory, about places and people who transform in an attempt to find their true identity. According to one critic, every novel by Anita Desai is a masterpiece of technical skill (Gopal, 2010). In Clear Light of Day Desai portrays his characters through various uses of symbols and images, and the language is often very poetic. Desai's protagonists 'associate their emotions and feelings with the buds, flowers, petals, birds, animals and insects that surround them' (narrative style and technique, 2003). At the beginning of Clear Light of Day we are given images of singing koels, of ants, of a rose garden, of a snail. All images that bring... middle of paper... just, no sympathy that made you want to sweep the old house of all its rubbish and put things of your choice in it?" (Desai,1980).Desai she uses imagery and symbolism as ways to create order in her novels. She often connects her characters to something in nature or history to give an indication of the direction the novel is going. She is also careful to choose names for readers a clue as to what is to come. For example, the name of the Das family's Muslim neighbor, Hyder Ali, is also the name of a Muslim ruler and commander who lived in the 18th century and also symbolizes the days when India still managed to preserve part of the magic of the world. Islamic cultural heritage. Bim's name can also be said to give us an idea of ​​what will happen. Bimla means "untouched" and is a good description of how Bim ends up living his life.