How Does Jhumpa Lahiri Present Gogols Feelings About His Homecoming?

Comment closely on ways in which the following passage presents Gogols feelings about his homecoming
Jhumpa Lahiri eloquently presents in her novel, ‘The Namesake’, all the different feelings Gogol Ganguli experiences on his train ride back home. One of which is the main feeling of loss which is apparent throughout this novel as well as in this passage. He has lost his father, Maushumi and he is about to lose his house, which is sentimental to him because it is the one place that him and his family spent most of their time. In addition the feeling of displacement is evident, this feeling evokes awareness to the reader of Gogols struggle to put into perspective all the many situations he faces; his mother moving back to India , Knowledge of
However the subsidiary feeling of aloofness gives way to Gogols isolation, which is evident in line 3, where he prefers to wait outside for Ben and Sonia rather than in the train station. This feeling of detachment relates to the duality of being both Nikhil and Gogol due to the fact that Gogol will be erased from his life entirely once the house on Pemberton Road is sold. There will be ‘no trace that they were ever there’ and so Gogol will have to disconnect himself from who he was in the
Perhaps it is because he is not looking forward to the many questions that they will raise regarding Moushumi and that the absence of his father will be very evident. This relates to the feeling of loss where we get a sense that Gogol is trying to dodge the bullet of melancholy due to him having lost both his father and Maushumi. Lahiri points out that the choice of gifts Gogol has gotten his family was ‘uninspired’, meaning that he did not put any thought into buying his family gifts. This emphasises that he is detaching himself from the rest of his family and this gives way to his