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Anita Desai has also given a new dimension to the various aspects of the concepts of motherhood in the novel. Though Anita Desai is feministic in her tone, she chooses not to go beyond treating women as an individual and has brought to light the importance of personal relationships especially in the institution of marriage for the attainment of harmony in life, and has sought maternity, that may be in the form of nurturing or sustaining mother as a means to gain totality of being. She has tried to project the fact that neither fantasy and imagination nor reality and reason can be all in all for an individual and that one has to go beyond the imagined and the literal to strike a balance between all aspects of life, to attain a vision, that wholeness and perfection of life, which every individual craves for can be attained not in aloofness but in love. Such a state can only be achieved by approaching life and relationships without any pre-conceived notions or prejudices and by giving up aloofness. Motherhood has a well-established image in the human mind and Anita Desai extends this image to a new reality she projects through the character of Bim who though unmarried successfully strives for and achieves. Clear Light of Day shows with stark clarity three images of motherhood in Mrs. Das, Mira Masi and Bim and shatters the myth that being a biological mother provides a celestial gratification and ties the mother and her progeny in an unbreakable bond.