THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST: American values

• America rapresents the ideal city, where Changez can realize his American dream. The novelist introduces New York as a multicultural and cosmopolitan city. Indeed it is a mixture of different cultures and as a consequence the protagonist tries to adapt himself to his new home and to the new values and ideals origitated by American people.
• Changez is attracted by modernisation and progress coming from America, a different reality from Pakistan, where there isn’t an adeguated state of development.
• Changez admires American companies especially one of them. Indeed, after telling about his life, about his studies at Princeton University and his increasing American dream, the protagonist underlines his oustanding records at university: this leads him to his job with the Underwood Samson & Company, which evaluated business. He has the perception to live in a wonderful dream where everything is possible and is dominate by perfection.
• America rapresents his love as well who is a girl called Erica. Every moment of America is personified with Erica’s one. Like her country she accepts Changez before the Twin Towers attack, she is open to him, but she refuses him after the terrible event. Erica is very attractive and she catches the attention of a lot of people just like America does. Therefore even Changes has been mesmerised by her, who offers to help him to settle in the new country.