She never missed Doris Day when her movie was playing at the Metro Cinema. Bharati envied her talent and ambition because she could relate to her. "Doris Day, a woman who said exactly what was on her mind and said it in a nearly incomprehensible American accent…was all right to love precisely because she was American" (189). Whether she was understood or not, it didn't matter because Doris Day was still in America living the life of a free American woman. This was what Bharati wanted. She did not want to be locked up in Calcutta struggling through the stereotypes of women, not having the ability to walk to the store without the approval of the man in her life. "I identified with her totally, I, too, intended to go places, be somebody" (190).

Day's film, "Love Me or Leave Me" inspired Bharati and showed her that America was a country with opportunities and that she would be able to exceed tradition and become the writer that she has always dreamed of becoming: " 'It' was my own desire to be a writer and touch people with my novels" (190).

"Love Me or Leave Me", a film by Doris Day guided Bharati Mukherjee to see that she did have the opportunity to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. She comprehended the idea that it was possible for her to go beyond "patriarchal Hindu families like [hers], [where] men commanded and women o

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