Rasipuram Krishna Swamy Narayan is popularly known as R. K. Narayan. He is, beyond all shade of doubt, one of the most distinguished Indian novelists writing in English. He is a keen observer of human life and the problems that are involved there in. He looks at life with absolute detachment and with artistic objectivity . He presents life as it is and as he sees and understands it. Narayan’s range of the vision of life is limited to the people of the middle class. An artist is known by what he omits; and in this aspect, Narayan is compared with Jane Austen and Narayan is content with his ‘little bit of ivory just so many inches wide. Narayan’s third novel entitled The Dark Room , which is the least characteristic of Narayan as a novelist, is ideological in theme. He looks like a feminist in this novel espousing the cause of an ideal Hindu married woman who has been savagely mistreated by her tyrannical husband. Savitri, the female protagonist, is conceived as an ideal Hindu wife embodying all the virtues of an archetypal womanhood; she is a dutiful wife and a loving mother; she is perpetually ill -treated by her peevish, ill -tempered, cynical and sadistic husband – Ramani, an Insurance Officer in Malgudi. The Dark Room as a novel of protest serves its purpose. It is one of the earliest attempts at presenting the ‘plight’ of a middle class married woman; and Savitri is not a solitary case of this type. She is symbolic of the unfortunate tribe of women; enlightened society needs to discover ways and means – and there are the right ways and means – of emancipating women like Savitri and her ilk