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- - - - “The allusion to clothing and attire further emphasise the ‘peculiar feeling of disconnectedness’. It’s an experience of humiliation which Changez registers” similar to the incident at the airport. “Coupled with the embarrassment and suspicion…it heightens his sense of guilt and self-consciousness”
        (Roshan Doug)
        
        In Brick Lane, Hasina’s story parallels Nanzeen’s and the switches between the sisters’ narratives, one working in the textile industry in London and another working in the textile industry in Bangladesh.
    - - Gilbert feels the "torture of missing cow-foot stew...curried shrimp" and "pepper pot soup". English food is "grey and limp in comparison"
- - - - Gilbert speaks with a Jamaican accent. He retains a Jamaican voice, never fully assimilating. Similarly to Small Island, language in The Lonely Londoners retains the authenticity of the voices of immigrants, written in striking non-standard English as a resistance to assimilation and a commitment to an accurate portrayal of the Immigrant experience
    - - However, it is language that attaches him to Pakistan. At one point, instead of assimilating himself, he says to the American, "If only you understood Urdu", reflecting America's ignorance of his culture. "I did not think of myself as a Pakistani, but as an Underwood Samson trainee" shows cultural dilution.
        
        The way Changez speaks, “his overt politeness and turn of phrase hints that he is not quite the Westerner his education and assimilation would suggest”, the opening sentences “establish[es] a tone of formal civility that one would expect from a sales assistant” (Roshan Doug) e.g. Erica says, ""I don't think I've ever met someone our age as polite as you...respectful polite"