Good thing she is Indian, then. She can relate to Gogol's growing up with immigrant parents. In fact, the two of them have quite a few things in common: they're both Indian, they both have artistic tastes, they both have fraught relationships with their foreign names, and they both went to elite universities.
All these things in common make for the perfect couple, right? It turns out that's exactly what makes their marriage a "mistake": "They had both sought comfort in each other, and in their shared world, perhaps for the sake of novelty, or out of the fear that the world is slowly dying. Dating an Indian is new for Moushumi, too.
Again, that sounds nice enough. But something is wrong. Not long into their marriage, it's clear that Moushumi is a restless, unsatisfied wife, and as the narrator tells us, "Sometimes she wondered if it was her horror of being married to someone she didn't love that had caused her, subconsciously, to shut herself off.
In fact, it is implied that Gogol "represents some sort of capitulation or defeat. Gee, how romantic. In the end, it's this very thing that ruins their marriage:. And yet the familiarity that had once drawn her to him has begun to keep her at bay. Though she knows it's not his fault, she can't help but associate him, at times, with a sense of resignation, with the very life she has resisted, has struggled so mightily to leave behind. No wonder she calls up Dimitri Desjardins. It is also evident that Bertrande is willing to hold up her position is society when her husband suddenly decides to leave, yet she has knowledge that.
Seeing not only her mother but her female friends and family members regret their choices, Esperanza is deeply affected and succeeds on making changes that allow her a better life. Esperanza realizes that what other females in her life regret the most is their lack of independence.
A house all my own. She had dreams and things she wanted to do with her life that were crushed. She married Curley out of impulse, and it got her somewhere she never wanted to be.
The life that Nieve lived before made her want to change. The people Nieve has surrounded herself with also make her a different person. In order for her to feel like she fits in, she lets the people she hangs out around shape her to be quiet and kept to herself. It also makes her another person who is not at all herself, and forces her to keep her true feelings in her diary. Another theme that is present is the theme of freedom.
At first, she does not have much freedom at all and throughout the duration of they story she is confined in her home. Her newfound freedom gave her much joy but as she left her room, it was cut much too short due to her untimely death. The Story of an Hour has many structural, stylistic, and literary approaches that make it a very powerful. At the beginning of the novel E. She describes her name as different from herself and does not want to accept her name as part of her identity.
In chapter one of the book E. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means. In this book it seems that suicide was the only thing Edna had control over and she took it. You see Edna struggle with her role as a mother and wife.
Struggling with distance learning? Our Teacher Edition on The Namesake can help. Themes All Themes. Symbols All Symbols. Theme Wheel. Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. The Bengali woman who marries Gogol , Moushumi was one of the children present at the many gatherings of Bengali friends in their childhood.
She grew up in London, and had a British accent when she and Gogol first met, always preferring her books to the television that the other kids were watching.
Their parents set them up after Moushumi breaks off an engagement to Graham just before their wedding. Moushumi and Gogol share the experience of having a complicated connection to their family and history, which brings them together, but is too limited to support a real relationship. She brings the marriage with Gogol to an end by cheating on him with Dimitri Desjardins. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:.
Chapter 8 Quotes. Page Number and Citation : Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. Chapter 9 Quotes. Chapter 10 Quotes. Chapter 12 Quotes. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Chapter 4. The closest to his age is a girl named Moushumi , recently arrived from England, but they have nothing in common. Chapter 8. Moushumi is waiting for him in a bar in the East Village, reading a book in On the way back to his In the next few days, Gogol recalls images of Moushumi from years ago that he had forgotten—the books she always brought along to the parties, They talk about her dissertation, and that Christmas party years before.
Moushumi tells him that playing the piano was always a fantasy her mother had for her, They walk out into the cold New York winter. Moushumi sees Gogol shivering, and insists that they go to buy a hat. He enjoys the She looks for a place to put
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