Two prominent female characters in the novel The Thousand Faces of Night Devi and Sita assumes characteristic traits to deal with their respective situations. Devi, overawed by her grandmother ’s mythological narratives and their inherent depiction of subservient female roles vis -à-vis the male. She tries to compensate her lack of feminine charm through assumption of traditional masculine traits but fails to influence her male counterparts. Sita, Devi ’s mother, having a submissive husband in Mahadevan, gets space for asserting herself as a matriarch in her ho usehold. She adopts all those masculine elements which felicitate her to become an authoritative mother and managerial wife. Ironically , birth the daughter and the mother have to ultimately seek succour in their femininity when they miserably fail as mascu line females