Coming To America By Jhumpa Lahiri Analysis

To me Jhumpa Lahiri’s story about her struggle to mingle into American society, coming from an Indian background, is very much similar. To really experience and to get know what she felt like one should really have been through that and been to places where no one is concerned about your existence. Well, if you ask me, I have been through it many times and every time I got into that situation, it felt like I was doomed and was on the cusp of choking myself for some reason. I bet, growing up, everyone has witnessed something like this at least once. It is really hard especially if you’re an outsider because people often tend to alienate you. I personally, faced this kind of situations when I went to a new school, a new place/country and whenever I faced myself in a very awkward situation where me not being …show more content…
Things didn’t take a big turn after that night either. I can say this because something very similar happened to me again, when I left my country to come to the United States. I was so scared to bid goodbye to everyone I was so close with. It was a completely different feeling to, at the same time it was so close to what Lahiri talks about. Coming from a different part of the world, where everything is the total opposite, I was terrified. All this feeling mixed with anxiety made it worse. There was this very small barrier holding back all my feelings from exploding after I got here. It looked as if everyone was giving me ‘the eye’. It was the kind of eye where you feel like you are being looked down at, or people staring at you because you are just different from the rest. My situation was worsening as I headed for my university; seeing all these unfamiliar faces and people made me wonder if I could get along, if my views would match and would I be able to sync with them? However, you know confidence is the key and I basically used it to get what was required to get along with the new group of