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Chitra Baneerjee pens to unite people. She hopes through her writing to dissolve boundaries among people of different backgrounds, communities, ages, and even different worlds. Her writing often centers on the lives of immigrant women. She is interested in women�s development in their life. She realized that there was no main stream shelter for immigrant women on dissolves the place where people would understand their cultural needs and problems in the United States. Because of the experience she gathered from counselling sessions, the lives of Asian women opened up to her, revealing unimaginable crises. The character examines in this paper seems to be confident and definite in their actions. The characters fight against them and reveal their own ideas. In her novel Queen of Dreams, the protagonist Rakhi is caught between her mother�s past and her own present. This shows the protagonist mental state and how she over comes it. The impact of the past is found in the present life of Rakhi. The writer shows indirectly how the past life of one�s life reflects the present. The decisions in her life are hard to make, but yet she displays an air of confidence. A modest attempt has been made in this paper to analyse the women�s predicaments with �Cultural Identity in Chitra Banerjee�s Queen of Dreams�. This dissertation examines all these aspects with relevant incidents from the novel. It also examines immigrant cultural dilemmas, and their identity crises as many of the characters in these novels go through an immigrant experience. Finally, this study paves a way for further research in the novels of Chitra Banerjee.