He is an ABCD, an "American Born Confused Deshi". In one way he wants to escape himself from the tradition of his family and on the other he faces trouble to acculturate himself in the American culture. She also depicts a grey picture of marginalization and prejudice in which Gogol becomes a victim of it. The reader can notice the amalgamation of the social ethos of Bengali and American culture in her novel. Likewise, in The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri focuses on two generations of Indian Bengali family and their struggle to assimilate themselves in the new land. The psychological traumas in the new land always put immigrants in between the tradition of the native and host land. 'Home' for the diasporic subjects has become an injured symbol of scars, cultural and fractured identity.
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