The novel showed several themes but the most important theme is the social status of men and women The sub themes are living up with the codes and values such as loyalty duty order and tradition If we compare the situation of men and women of the past to the men and women of today we can say that people in the past exercise less freedom In the novel women are not free in a sense they cannot go out of their nut shells Their duty is to be a wife to their husbands mother to their children and know