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Lahiri divulges various facets of Ashima’s character, and also shows her strengths and weaknesses, in her book, The Namesake. Lahiri is telling her readers that the role of Ashima in the Indian culture is to get married, but not boy choice, bear a child, and to take care of the child while her husband provides the funds. Lahiri is also trying to get the readers to understand that Ashima’s life in America is a whole different lifestyle than her life in he home country. Coming from India to America for her husband’s education, having a baby in America, and having to cope with her mother’s illness and father’s death, while being in another country, Ashima Ganguli proves to be a strong woman.
When Ashima is at the hospital, she hears a man say “[He] loves you, sweet heart�, to is wife (3). Ashima never expects this affection to happen between Ashoke and herself, since she had an arranged marriage and does not call her husband by her first name because of intimacy, saying......

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