1. Themes of Alienation in The Namesake
... , even though these characters are American born, they remain in the category of "outsider" or "other" to the majority of Americans, who focus on their foreign background to which each of them feel limited connection. Particularly, Gogol experiences this at a dinner party at New Hampshire, 'At dinner he is asked by a neighbourat what age he moved ... who assume he is Indian-born. Thus, while these second generation of immigrants are American-born and feel a greater belonging to the Westernised culture within America than to their Bengali background, they each experience the same ali...
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