Clothes

What do you do, when you're about to get married to a complete stranger, who lives on the other side of the world? How do you cope with being removed from everything you know, and placed in a completely different culture? Clothes is a story about a woman's life, which is about to be turned upside down. A marriage with a man she barely knows sends her across the ocean to the daunting world of L.A. Clothes os a short story of love, arranged marriage and clothing, with Sumita as the main character. Sumita seems like a very kind, yet naïve young woman. She believes in the American beauty and that everything there is colourful and brilliant. She is quite anxious for her future, and the thought of going across seas to live with complete strangers, but the thought of her husbands shop and her beautiful saris make her take the journey, not that she has much of a choice. Though naïve and sometimes childish, she also has a sense of responsibility, and want to her her husband4. She is anxious of her future, and she's afraid of having to move all the way to America. Even though she is scared, she also seems excited, since she keeps talking about her soon-to-be-husband's shop. She seems very kind and loving in the way she talks to Somesh and the way she wants to help him. Sumita can be described as a round characters, since the definition of this term is a main character, that develops throughout the story. Sumita does exactly this. She changes from being a naïve, young girl with fear of the unknown, to a responsible woman, who is widowed at much too young an age and now leaves to follow her dreams. When Somesh was alive, none of them dared to say a word against his parents, but now Sumita no longer feels related to them. Even though she is mourning over the loss of Somesh, I think she is mostly upset about her loss of the American dream, so she sets off to find it on her own.
The story is told in 1st person, with insight in Sumita's mind. This gives us a very believing, but