The values ​​and rules of the traditional community add a lot of pressure on an individual's shoulders as they choose their identity. Although women have relatively more freedom than before, yet the values ​​of traditional communities create an invisible fence between their choices. It has put young women in a perplexing situation regarding their sexual freedom. Bell demonstrates how contradictory messages are conveyed to young women, writing that "their peers, television shows like Sex and the City, and movies seem to encourage sexual experimentation... But at the same time, books, like Unhooked and A Return to Modesty advise them to return to the courtship practices of the early 1900s” (27). This type of demonstration by the media, of what a woman's character should be, psychologically creates rules for young women contradictory to each other and are impossible to follow. Young women struggle to follow these rules which leads them to the idea of ​​splitting. Young women make the difficult decision to split up, which means they separate the choice of lifestyle they can have and choose one. Bell argues that "the contradictions and uncertainties that characterize the lives of young women today lead many of them to systematically employ certain unconscious defenses to resolve their internal conflicts and anxiety, often to their detriment" (28 ). Splitting is the unconscious defense they choose to resolve complications with the traditional rules of their respective communities. Alicia and Jayanthi were also part of the split; they choose the path that attracted them at that moment. They failed to gain their true identity because they failed to express their true self. They choose a path and want to experience it as much as possible because in their mind they are not allowed to do so