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“Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is about Sumita and her arranged marriage. All of her friends in India are jealous of her because she gets to start her new married life in with a man that lives in America. The possibilities are endless in America, right? Sumita moves to America to live with her newly-arranged husband, Somesh. Somesh lives with his parents and through out sometime of getting to know him and being married to him, she slowly starts to fall in love. Even though Somesh's parents lives in America, the land of opportunity, they are still very poor and they still have strong Indian culture influences. Somesh and Sumita want a life of their own and want to abandon some aspects of indian culture. Somesh buys Sumita American clothes hides that she secretly wears the Americans clothes. Sumita is torn between the Indian culture and her new life in America. Her traditional skirts or her American Jeans? Sumita's husband, Somesh is killed where he works by a man with a gun, and now Sumita has to choose between two lives. One life with her in-laws or the life of going back to India. In …show more content…

Sumita is internally torn on what direction she wants her life to go because her past. Growing up for Sumita was not rough however, when she is in America, all of her memories of her childhood home seem to fade away and become irrelevant. America equals opportunity to Sumita. Her husband, who she slowly falls in love with provides her with the motivation to dream big. He tells her often that some day she is going to go to college, get a degree and teach bunches of blond, pig-tailed students in a large classroom. When she slips on her American jeans and tee shirt, she feels more comfortable. She feels more comfortable because this is what she dreamed about all her life. Sumita’s identity is altered to her perspectives on where she wants her new life to go with her, newly arranged

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