The Namesake- Week 1 Post B

Within just the first 20 pages of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, "The Namesake," I have already been drawn into the intrigue of a different culture and a woman's time living in a completely different country than hers. Mostly it is just discussion about how Ashima Ganguli, the woman, met her husband, Ashoke Ganguli, and her time living with him in Cambridge where he attends school and she stays at home with her big pregnant belly. It is how they got to that point that I find interesting because there marriage was arranged by their parents back in Calcutta. The book is told in the third person so you kind of get to read the feelings of each character. One thing that I don't really like, and is kind of odd, but it does is the time period of which it takes place in. It takes place in mostly the nineteen sixties, but men and woman in that time already kind of had the roles of the woman staying at home, and the men going to work. I think it would be more interesting to see a modern day arranged marriage than one that took place back then, because I feel it was more common then. Although her story is still interesting.