One significant change they went through was when Mala first prepared his breakfast. She fixed him a tradition Bengali breakfast but he suggested he was fine with cereal. The next day, she prepared him cereal. This moment is a step forward in their relationship and their transition to America. They meet at common grounds. Lahiri uses Mala preparing the narrator’s food, her duty, as a mixture of American and Bengali culture. Mala makes him cereal for breakfast for and typical Bengali food for dinner. He is no longer eating only cereal. The narrator states, “I still was not used to coming home to an apartment that smelled of steamed rice”(Lahiri 99). Lahiri’s creates a metaphor with food. The compromise they create is the first step of their transition to America together, not just his transition but also
One significant change they went through was when Mala first prepared his breakfast. She fixed him a tradition Bengali breakfast but he suggested he was fine with cereal. The next day, she prepared him cereal. This moment is a step forward in their relationship and their transition to America. They meet at common grounds. Lahiri uses Mala preparing the narrator’s food, her duty, as a mixture of American and Bengali culture. Mala makes him cereal for breakfast for and typical Bengali food for dinner. He is no longer eating only cereal. The narrator states, “I still was not used to coming home to an apartment that smelled of steamed rice”(Lahiri 99). Lahiri’s creates a metaphor with food. The compromise they create is the first step of their transition to America together, not just his transition but also