*Head and Associate Professor, Sethu Institute of Technology, Pulloor, Kariapatti, Tamilnadu, India
**Assistant Professor, Syed Ammal Engineering College, Ramanathapuram, Tamilnadu, India
The author of this paper seeks to examine the concepts of tradition and modernity among the family adults and children in the novel Fasting Feasting. This paper is a study based on post-modernism about the elders in the family showing their dominance to follow traditions by the children and discrimination shown in bringing up the children belonging to the same family.
Tradition, Modernity, Marriage, Family System, Post-Modernism