In the novels of Thomas Hardy and Anita Desai, we come across that woman who is passive and vain as well as women who are ambitious and independent do not conform to the rigid moral codes and social systems. Since love has by no means the same meaning for both the sexes. Both the eminent writer of different era points out that it becomes the cause for serious misunderstanding that separates them. For a woman, love is not only devotion but a total surrendering of body and soul without any reservation. Encodes in her own sphere, under male domination love becomes one of the means to assert her worth. Hence, we find that women are enchanted by mens virility, wealth, distinction of manners and social status. Both the novels offer us artistic and absorbing pictures of relationship between man and woman, parent and child, individual and society.