They also act as a reminder that she, her mother and her mother's mother before her have all ventured out into the unknown -- it is a woman's duty.
Her life with Somesh in contrast to her nervousness while they were together in India progresses nicely into a playful and happy union. They live with her in-laws as Somesh works hard to raise enough money for them to move out on their own while also taking care of his parents. This time acts as a protective cocoon for the burgeoning love and affection for one another and the complete transition of Mita into a married woman flourishing in a new world -- American. Here, as before, clothing expresses this newness and her comfort with it to the reader.
Somesh covertly buys her American clothing, in one instance jeans, "…the same pale blue as the nayantara flowers that grow in my parent's garden. The solid weight comforting." She is able to find joy in this new clothing because she can find a connection to her old life through its comforting sameness in color to an already established memory. The t-shirt she is given is, "…sunrise orange -- the color, I decide, of joy, of my new American life." Her christening the worth of the color orange on her own terms is interesting when compared to the ending of the story. If she had related to the traditional symbolism of orange as a healing color representing vitality through endurance, it would have acted as a...
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