Fatalism in Edwards’s The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Abstract

The research entitled "Fatalism in Edwards’s The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”is an attempt to analyze the detrimental consequences of hidden lies and the power of secret. Fatalism is a theoretical tool used in this research which explores how the secrets become the means of self-destruction and shows how a person’s decision molds his/her very existence and the lives of people around them. In this research, the families have secrets which they hide even from themselves. In the story,Dr.Henry takes his son as a healthy boy whereas his daughter as with Down’s syndrome. In the shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will revel, Dr.Henry tellshis wife, Norah their daughter, Phoebe dies while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse, Caroline. The study unfolds irrevocably into the entangled lives of two families and the devasting secret. This hidden secret shapes both of them in the novel.