He is older than she is and had gone on one date with her, but abandoned the effort when she made the mistake of asking him to her high school prom. Moushumi decides to photocopy Dimitri's resume so she can get in touch with him.
At home, she finds an edition of The Red and the Black by Stendhal that Dimitri had sent to her during her time at Brown, while they were still in touch. She makes the decision to call Dimitri and they begin having an affair on Mondays and Wednesdays, after she teaches her class. He always makes her lunch and then they have sex. Gogol does not suspect anything about the affair, but Moushumi finds it difficult to sleep and often spends whole nights awake in bed next to her husband.
The theme of the United States vs. India is apparent during the wedding between Moushumi and Gogol. Their parents plan the entire thing, inviting people neither of them has met and engaging in rituals neither of them understands. They don't have the type of intimate, personal wedding their American friends would have planned. Gogol feels alienated sometimes in his marriage to Moushumi. When he finds remnants of her life with Graham around the apartment they now share together, he wonders if "he represents some sort of capitulation or defeat.
The tension of life versus death is apparent to Gogol, as he gets ready for his wedding. Gogol begins to feel more and more nostalgic as his marriage with Moushumi progresses.
In Paris, he wishes he could stay in bed with Moushumi for hours as they used to do, rather than having to sightsee by himself while she prepares for her presentation. During the dinner party at the home of Astrid and Donald, Gogol becomes nostalgic for when he and Moushumi were first dating, and had spent an entire afternoon designing their ideal house. After college, she moved to Paris and eventually became engaged to a man named Graham, a New Yorker living in Paris. Graham visited Calcutta with her, but when they returned to America, he began mocking Bengali culture, which infuriated Moushumi even though she, too, had tried to distance herself from her roots.
They broke up a few weeks before the wedding, after which Moushumi stayed single until she met up with Gogol.
Because Gogol has used the Ratliffs as an escape from his past for so long, he now sees them as an impediment in his journey to reconnect with his past. Although they are fond of each other in an abstract way, their love lacks the intimacy that it would have needed to thrive. Although Ashoke and Ashima never showed the kind of physical attraction to each other that Gogol has known with his girlfriends, they had a commitment that he admires and longs for.
Like Gogol, Moushumi has just left a relationship that dissolved because of cultural differences. Gogol is both drawn to and frustrated by the group attending the party. They are intellectuals, artists, Brooklynites. Some minutes later, Gogol joins Donald in the kitchen, where he is preparing the meal. Donald points out the bedroom in that very house where Moushumi stayed, despondent, after her relationship with Graham ended.
Later, during another conversation about names, over dinner, Moushumi reveals that his original name is Gogol, and that he changed it, officially, in high school.
The group is stunned, and they seem to chuckle at the connection to Nikolai Gogol. Gogol realizes that his life with Moushumi, despite seeming so satisfying, has in fact left him angered and lonely. It also foreshadows some of the problems that will come to haunt their relationship. Next Chapter Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks?
My Preferences My Reading List. The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri. Summary and Analysis Chapter 9 Summary Gogol and Moushumi marry the following year in a ceremony that their parents plan.
Analysis Because Moushumi and Gogol are Bengali, their parents seize the opportunity to have a Bengali wedding, which causes Moushumi and Gogol to feel disconnected from the wedding preparations and even from the ceremony itself. Adam Bede has been added to your Reading List!
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