The female protoganist is a significant character in the traditional Tamil Literature on private life. Anxiety and aspiration, fidelity and suspicion. misery and intelligence all combine in her to make her a living woman throbbing with life and emotions. The traits of her character get revealed through her short crisp dialogues and quick reactions represented in the utterances made by her lover. On many occasions she reveals bits of her mind, in her addresses to her own 'eyes' or her own 'heart'! The confidant's and the lover's accounts of her behaviour on various occasions also give us, glimpses of her character.