American Dreamer Mukherjee Summary
In “American Dreamer” Mukherjee talked about coming to the US and becoming a citizen and how she had to find her own definition of a family culture. This was because she could not go back to live the way she did before her marriage.
As an Indian student, she had a lot of restrictions imposed on her by her family. The culture she lived in was tightly controlling. There wasn’t a problem of culture and identity in her home: “In Calcutta in the ’50 s I heard no talk of identity crisis-communal or individual” (120). However, once she started to live in Canada, then in America, she had to find another manner to describe her world. She makes sure to state that she chose to become who she is. She says, “I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means
As an Indian student, she had a lot of restrictions imposed on her by her family. The culture she lived in was tightly controlling. There wasn’t a problem of culture and identity in her home: “In Calcutta in the ’50 s I heard no talk of identity crisis-communal or individual” (120). However, once she started to live in Canada, then in America, she had to find another manner to describe her world. She makes sure to state that she chose to become who she is. She says, “I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means