Monica Balyan Dahiya Ph.D. Scholar Department of Humanities, D.C.R.U.S.T . Murthal (Sonepat) Haryana- 131027. Abstract This present paper attempts to explain Anita Desai’s superiority over her contemporaries in balancing the aspects of image metaphor and symbols in her novels. The range of images is one of the special features of these two novels, Cry, the…