Changez is the indisputable protagonist of The Reluctant Fundamentalist: this, is strongly and clearly proven by the way Mohsin Hamid (with the using of a technique such as the dramatic monologue) gives him the honor of being the one and only narrator of the story. No one interrupts his long and fluent tale, and only his point of view is shown.

Changez lets the reader be familiar with him through his words, that not only summarize his life, but do it in a way that his personality can't but emerge clear.

He is a brilliant, young, man: his way of predicting exactly what his (silent) interlocutor is thinking, even if a stranger to him, his way of comparing two contrary worlds as Lahore and New York, and his way of exposing all this in a sure, charming way both show his ability as an orator, and his cleverness. Changez is, anyway, a round character: his whole life is characterized by development, by "evolving", adapting: if at first he describes himself as an excited, hopeful brilliant student (as brilliant to be admitted in a school as Princeton, and receive a work at Underwood and Samson, one of the best New York's firms), totally absorbed by the capitalistic American Dream, then he changes; after a symbolic event as 9/11, and some personal considerations, he feels as a traitor of his country (Pakistan), and so returns to his homeland. Every page of the novel, Changez changes his personal point of view, but this is not a case: Mohsin Hamid created him to be a character who, living between to opposed worlds (the West and the East), could show the contraddictions, the problems a fact as Western domination over Eastern world have created into the ruled countries.

Changez refers to changing, and this is exactly what he costantly does, moved by the identity crisis he can't but feel. He is never sure about who he really is, and this is one of the worst things a human being can feel.