Clothes

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Presented by: ANNIE CHAU KING NU

Identity

Integration

THEMES

Arranged marriage

Clash of cultures

SUMMARY
Sumita and her arranged marriage. Her friends in India are Jelous of her because she is going to marry a man who lives in America.
She moves to America to live with her husband Somesh and his parents, and she slowly starts to fall in love with him.

Eventhrough Somesh's parents, lives in America they are still very Indian and therefore Somesh and Sumita hides that she secretly wears Americans clothes.
Sumita is torn between the Indian culture and her new life in America. Sumita's husband is killed at his workplace by a man with a gun, and now Sumita has to choose between a life with her in-laws or move back to India but she choose to put her American clothes on, and not go back to her home country.

THE NARRATOR
First person narrator Seen from Sumita's point of view

Place setting
India America