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Anita Desai and Gita Hariharan attempt to explore the various characteristics of women in Indian society today. Both illustrate the diversity and variety of India among Indian English writers. The characters' writings are made up of their repressed desires, their passion, and their inner experiences. Besides that, it investigates the nature of aspirations and fights to achieve self-definition while illustrating the protagonists' moral and emotional solitude. The goal of hermeneutics is to interpret signs, and this paper examines the art of interpretation practised by Anita Desai in Cry The Peacock and Gita Hariharan in Thousand Faces of Night for the accomplishment of women's identities. The emotions, aspirations, desires, and constraints of their protagonists are projected by women writers. In particular, they emphasise the difficulties faced by women in a repressive patriarchal culture. They also portray the dramatic experience of women. The study reveals the writers' methods for expressing their thoughts on gender relations in their fictional female characters. In the works of Anita Desai and Githa Hariharan, a new woman's self-concept develops from a sequence of gender encounters set within the framework of sociology, psychology, ideology, history, and feminism.