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The movie took this scene out completely and I think this really took away from the theme of identity. You don't see him feeling like an outside, and like his wife is this great person with a great life, while he doesn't really have that.
The book shows the inner struggle that Gogol has with his name
The movie does not show him hating his name, it only shows that he was made fun of
"The sight of it printed in capital letters on the crinkly page upsets him viscerally. It's as though the name were a particularly unflattering snapshot of himself" (Lahiri. 45)
Moushumi (Mo)
Gogol
Sonia
Ashok
Ashima
How this theme differs in the book and the movie
"Remember that you and I made this journey, that we went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go" (Lahiri. 92)