Did Gogol Find the One?

              I really hope that Gogol and Moushumi end up together because he has the opportunity to marry the only person that will ever understand his struggle in choosing between Indian culture and American culture. Moushumi and Gogol grew up together, were dragged to all the same extended Bengali family events and introduced as cousins. They have both strayed from their Indian heritage and do not continue to follow many of the Bengali traditions (much to their parent’s dismay). Although Gogol “[talks] to the driver in Bengali” he does not eat Indian food every night, and neither does Moushumi (Lahiri 200). This is why Moushumi cooks Italian food for Nikhil when he first visits her apartment even though “[her] mother is appalled that [she’s] not making [him] Indian food” (Lahiri 209). Now, after going on a couple dates with Moushumi, Gogol cannot stop thinking about her and remembering little things about her when she was a girl. They both are able to reminisce about the other person from old Bengali events and realize that they could have been close so long ago. Although they were both reserved going into their first “blind date” because their mothers set it up, they cannot help by falling in love. I really hope that she ends up being the one he marries because they share the same childhood, a rebellious adolescence, and have now met back up. They are both looking to settle down (or maybe just their mothers think they are) and they are going to find the cliché person they feel like they’ve know their entire lives in each other, because they kind of have.