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The Better Man is the journey of a soul, the story of a retired government officer - Mukundan Nair, who returns to his Kerala village. But this means coming face to face with his dead past, millions of grey shadows and ghosts of his dead mother and ancestors haunting and tormenting him. Anita Nair, as a feminist novelist and humanist, throws light on the unknown and unique facets of women's life and world and thereby offers a new perspective through her works.In her novel, The Better Man, Anita Nair has explicated a quest for identity self realization and portrays women's aspiration for freedom in marital life, freedom in establishing healthy husband wife relationship. Anjana in The Better Man enjoys independence and self satisfaction till she gets married to Ravindran. She wants to love and give the best to her husband but, he avoids her. She longs for freedom in most marriages prove to be unions of incompatibility. Men are apt to be rational and matter of fact while women are sentimental and emotional. Their interests, their attitudes are different. Naturally they look at things in different way and react to the same situations differently.Anita Desai portrays females' desire of liberty from social and traditional bondages in the patriarchal society in her novels. She denies a narrow feminist approach. She herself asserts that she writes about women for she knows and understands them best.