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Sudha Coming To America Character Analysis

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right one. Sudha undergoes cultural changes on immigration. Sara is an assimilated modern woman with American outlook. She becomes a source of inspiration to survive and amalgamate in the alien culture. “You got to get out of this valley, girl see the other Americas” (84). Sudha sheds her traditional conservative role of a pathetic female and evolves into liberal and self dependent women. She represents transformation in motion, from a traditional wife to modern women to withstand on her own to reject a home to save her pregnancy. She breaks all restraints bound with Indian marriages and security. Single handed she risks about bringing up her a daughter. With all these burdens she adventures to America to give emotional support to her sister and a new direction to her life well aware of the fact that her dear sister’s husband has a passion for her. The predicament proliferates on her immigration; she becomes the cause of her sister’s home breaking. She encounters all these challenges yet to take up a job in America as a profession of home nurse to an octogenarian, who suffers extreme depression for home and India. Sudha also decides …show more content…

Anju discovers Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929) in the family bookstore and describes the book as having “the smell of distance, of new thinking” (Divakaruni 1999: 118). Having been raised in the traditional way where “... a good woman is to offer up her life for others” (Divakaruni 1999: 8-9) and “the husband is the supreme lord” (Divakaruni 1999: 49), Anju is understandably inspired by Woolf's passion and , Woolf's anger at women's “hav[ing] served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size" (Woolf 2001:

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