The articulate depressed person will often also struggle to put into words the fact that not only does there appear to be no way forward and thus no point to 121 life but that the world actually looks different." (P.7) Coleridge in `Ode to Dejection ' in his usual ironical manner has very beautifully explained the sentiments of such persons thus : "I see them all so excellently fair I see, not feel, how beautiful they are ;" At another place the author (Hinchliffe, Hooper & John) come to the final conclusion that ruptured personal relationship play a major part in the clinical picture and in this connection observed thus : "Initially we applied these ideas to study of cases of attempted suicide (Roberts and Hooper 1969) and although we did not assume that they were all necessarily depressed, we looked for distal and proximal causes for their behaviour and found that ruptured personal relationships played a major part in the clinical picture." (P.50) The observations of the authors aptly and directly apply to the nature, mood and the circumstances of the unfortunate life of Manju which came to an end within four months of marriage.