This paper aims in identifying and describing about the family problems between mother -in- law and daughters-in-law. In Sudha Murty novel Dollar Bahu. Sudha Murty is an Indian author, engineer, teacher and social worker. She was known for short stories and non-fictional. One of her well known novel is Dollar Bahu.The ideas of family relationship in Dollar Bahu . The story is about two daughters in- law of a family one from America and the other one from India. How the mother in law treats them. The story is more of the mother in – law who thinks that her American daughters in-law is better than her counterpart in India. Dollar Bahu book will shows some families that love and affection can be more important than money

Dollars, orthodox family systems, money madness