Identity In Holly's Home By Subhash

So he gets confused whenever people talk about India. “Subhash didn’t know how to describe India’s fractious politics, its complicated society, to an American” (41). After one year Richard moves to Chicago and he is surrounded by sadness again. Before leaving Subhash learns driving from Richard. So the only activity he does after him is sitting in the car and listening to pop American songs and enjoying them. He still tries to concentrate on his study. The places which initially compel him to change identity become a source of recalling his Indian roots. He has changed it because he knows he can never have roots in America so he imagines geographical connection between both countries. He brings out similarities and this thing helps him to change …show more content…
He thinks to himself, India celebrates this day, there is official holiday but for Holly and Americans it is just a common day. He recalls his childhood incident, when in August 1947, Indians were enjoying their freedom, and on the other side he and Udayan got sick. These are the memories of past which haunts him in an American home. While sitting with an American women, he is unable to enjoy her company and rather the date connects him with his past, family and native land. He recalls his brother so badly who lives in Tollygunge, and got married with his political friend’s …show more content…
She finds privacy there. There is no one to bother her. She enjoys her new identity. But soon she realizes that she cannot fulfil her dreams even in America. She feels something is still missing. She sheds her cloths, cuts her hair, and burns her Indian Saris. Gauri does all this to impress her husband. Her dilemma starts when she gets nothing even doing all this. She is unable to separate herself from the memories of past, her brother Manash and especially the memories of her ex-husband. She is not sated with new identity. She becomes more anxious and