The Namesake

The Namesake

Gogol's discomfort with his name is one of the novel's main themes. Also, Ashima never adresses her husband by his given name, because such a name is "intimate and therefore unspoken". What other names in the novel are important, and why?

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Check out the theme of "Name and Identity" at the link below:

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