Gogol's Values ​​Every individual has their own values ​​that they follow during growth. For Gogol he has spent his whole life knowing and following Indian values ​​and being very family oriented. As the Gangulis move to America and Gogol grows older, American values ​​begin to take over his life and he becomes more individual. There was a major turning point in the novel that quickly changed Gogol's personality from individuality to family-oriented. In the end, Indian values ​​were the most significant. Throughout the novel Gogol is influenced by American values ​​in many different ways. When Gogol arrived in America he changed radically. He became a very individual person. For this reason he no longer behaved the same way towards his parents. It all started when he discovered that his parents had named him after their favorite Russian author Nikolai Gogol. He was very angry about this because as he got older he didn't like that name. In class his teacher talked about the Russian writer and how he was a genius but had problems. Nikolai was very paranoid and had no friends. He never married and eventually committed suicide by starvation. “Did you know about [Nikolai Gogol] when you mentioned me? Was he paranoid, suicidal, friendless and depressed? (Lahiri). All of Gogol's classmates began to make fun of him because of his name. It was then that Gogol really began to get angry at his parents. “Of all the damned Russian writers in the universe, why did they have to choose the strangest one? What the hell is wrong with Leo or Anton?” (Lahiri). Gogol eventually lived alone in New York. When he lived there he had a relationship with this girl, Maxine. That was his love interest at the time. Ashima's wish was to have a Bengali daughter-in-law and Gogol...... middle of paper ......d Moushumi Mazumdar. In the end, the values ​​that struck him the most were the Indian ones. This is because the end result of the novel was a return to Bengali values. He had moved back in with his mother and married a Bangladeshi woman instead of the American one he was with before his father's death. His father's death is the main reason why he became family oriented again. If that hadn't happened, he would still be the individual person he was. He still carries some American values ​​with him, but now he is focused on his family and goes back to being the way he was when he was young. He will continue his Indian culture with his wife and when he has children. I'm sure he won't go back to full American values ​​now that he's married to a Bangladeshi woman. This is his partner and they do things together, so he knows that Indian values ​​are the most important thing for him from now on.