The dark room is another marvelous novel written by r k narayan where rigid traditional values are upheld and held staunchly there is irony and humour through the poignant pains of the leading female character savitri malgudi, a fabricated town, somewhere in south india, is where the story develops and molds here savitri is a submissive wife who listens to all the harsh abuses sent out to her by her husband ramani ramani works for the elite engladia insurance company and will do anything to satisfy his bossessavitri has three children kamala, babu and sumati savitri would flee to her dark room when she could not tolerate the pangs of intolerance and maltreatment meted out to her unfairly she discovers sadly that her husband is having an affair with another woman her husband even takes her favorite bench so that he can use it to decorate the other womans house her husband seems more interested in flattering and pleasing the other woman a simpleton like savitri has nowhere to go she trie