Through their writings some female authors endeavor to sensitize the middle class Indian woman to the overweening male-controlled culture. Their motive is to make the latter aware of her self-effacing persona in the interpersonal relationships where she cannot assert her individuality and personality, subsequently prompting a dependence syndrome in her. Crushing her rights and choices matrimony also proffers her a life full of thorns and prickles. The hypocritical and torturous marital relations make her meek and mild, consequently reducing her merely to an insignificant creature. These writers concentrate on the lives of the middle class Indian woman who is sandwiched between stereotyped practice and modernity. They wish that the Indian woman should bloom up to the mark so they motivate her to transcend the patriarchal threshold and polish her potential and talent. The present research paper brings about a comparative study of the novels That Long Silence and The Immigrant by Shashi Deshpande and Manju Kanpur respectively, in the light of self- actualization by the protagonists. Both writers penetrate into the female psyche. Their utmost concern has been a revelation of subtle mutual relationships and inner life of the women characters.