This essay discusses the conflict that arose from different characters and how it affects the story.įirstly, the name and identity at the beginning of Chapter One sparked a conflict when Ashima calls out for her husband out of the bathroom. Through the novel, Lahiri traces the changes that spark a sequence of recurring interest, social life, and meals all through Ashima, Ashoke, and Gogol’s life. Although Gogol, the American-born child, tries to resist his parents’ Indian culture, “he did not want to go home on the weekends, to go with them to pujos and Bengali parties, to remain unquestionably in their world” (126), which makes the family struggle to uphold their Indian culture and to subscribe to the new American culture. The novel centers it is attention on Gogol, the firstborn to Ashima and Ashoke. They feel out of place in the new land that even causes tension and worry in the family. The novel “ The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri focuses on Ganguli’s, a Bengali family, a young couple, Ashima and Ashoke, who are immigrants to the United States. “ The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri Book Review
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