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This paper is a comparative study of the representation of trauma in Anita Desai’s “Cry, The Peacock” and Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”. By investigating the arguments that happen in social studies, psychoanalysis and literary fiction about trauma and narrative, the relationship between them—that comes out as a result of investigation—is paradoxical. What is more, is that narrative is an essential tool for both "working-through" and bearing witness to the traumatic event(s); it can also be used deliberately or accidentally to generate a false version of events. The narratives selected for the study are concerned about trauma and narrative on the thematic as well as formal level. The protagonists from both the novels are depicted as individuals suffering from the effects of trauma, and both of them seek to bypass their trauma by generating falsify versions of their experiences and by changing the interpretation of their trauma through the mode of "working through". Thus, it results in affording a process of interpreting the hermeneutic of sufferings, which is one of the prime concerns of trauma and narrative in contemporary time.