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The paper examines how memory plays a remarkably significant role in the development of the plot of the short story “The Vein of Memory” by K. R. Meera. In the story, Meera portrays an elderly woman writer who could not make use of her creativity productively because of her familial duties and marital bondage. The old woman is presented as a person who has lost her memory in an attempt to commit suicide. Thus, memory plays a substantive role, creating an abrupt turning point in this story. Here, the paper attempts to deconstruct the storyline by probing the woman writer’s psychology and examining the status of her memory through a profound examination of the narration of her experiences in her suppressed marital life. The paper states that the protagonist is pretending memory loss or erasure of memory to mitigate the psychological trauma of the experiences she underwent as well as the pain of her unfulfilled ambitions.
Ms. Drisya K.. “Memory, Erasure, and Trauma: Deconstructing the Symbolism of the Violet Vein in “The Vein of Memory”.” The Criterion: An International Journal in English, vol. 17, no. 3, June 2026, pp. 605-619. DOI, https://doi.org/10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.37.
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