“Dress in sarees, be girl Be wife, they said. Be embroiderer, be cook, Be a quarreller with servants, Fit in. Oh, Belong, cried the categorizers. Don't sit On walls or peep in through our lace-draped windows. Be Amy, or be Kamala. Or, better Still, be Madhavikutty. It is time to Choose a name, a role. Don't play pretending games.”—Explain. / “Don’t play pretending games”—Explain.

“Dress in sarees, be girl

Be wife, they said. Be embroiderer, be cook,

Be a quarreller with servants, Fit in. Oh,

Belong, cried the categorizers. Don't sit

On walls or peep in through our lace-draped windows.

Be Amy, or be Kamala. Or, better

Still, be Madhavikutty. It is time to

Choose a name, a role. Don't play pretending games.”—Explain.

/OR/ 

“Don’t play pretending games”—Explain.

Answer: These lines have been taken from the poem An Introduction by Kamala Das. Once the poet or a girl described in the poem was forcefully got married without her consent even when she had not crossed her childhood. Due to her low age, she could not endure the marriage physically and mentally and soon became great with a baby. She began to hate her womanhood. And to be distinguished and to get rid of rules, order imposed on her, she cut her hair short, and wore her brother's shirt. But the society did not permit her to do all that. Always the male dominated society had underestimated the freedom, will of woman. Even they set the dress-code of women. According to them, they have no right to be equal to male as woman has just born to be someone's daughter or wife. Woman should not go outside to do any work; rather she should be a cook or an embroiderer. Even as if to be a perfect woman, according to the categorizer, woman should be a well quarreler with servant. Over all the male-governed society did not allow her to be her own identity. They were forced to take the identity or name of their husband. They should not peep though the window lace because she might look the world outside.