decision to leave her parent’s to move Paris. Yet, even this relationship, seemingly so well matched, failures after only a year of marriage. Because, Moushoumi reminds Gogol his adolescences. Meeting with her friends every weekend makes Gogol feels insecure in his marriage,” Gogol has nothing to say these people. He does not care their dissertation topics, or their dietary restriction” (page, 237)
After failure his relationship with Moushoumi, all his intense efforts to avoid his name, including legally changing his name to Nikhil, the final scene depicts Gogol beginning to read an anthology given to him by his father. Because of the odd link between his name and his father’s salvation, he discovers a sense of identity in his namesake, and a connection to his father, his father’s past, and indirectly, his own past, through the survival of his father. This ending suggests that Gogol has finally come to some conclusion about his identity.