In The Namesake, place for the characters is only a matter of where their identities and wanted culture, of mostly Bengali and American, are present as a necessary component of one another. Space on the other hand, acts as a something of which no obligations are made, whether it be based on culture or not; and identity in itself is of little importance in considerable spaces. Because of how place is chosen to be created as a way for specific forms of growth in oneself due to who they are to be, space 's own characteristics exist to contrast that fact. This makes it so the Ganguli family and others can reside in an area and settle under the identities they create from the culture they choose to adopt, making it a place, while subsequently coming to terms with the lack thereof in a space and even finding something to be desired from that. In examining the abundance of both, showing double consciousness and absence of any, what divides and defines space/place becomes clear. These distinctions separating and signifying the two as act an underlying tone to the story 's own narrative when viewing culture at
In The Namesake, place for the characters is only a matter of where their identities and wanted culture, of mostly Bengali and American, are present as a necessary component of one another. Space on the other hand, acts as a something of which no obligations are made, whether it be based on culture or not; and identity in itself is of little importance in considerable spaces. Because of how place is chosen to be created as a way for specific forms of growth in oneself due to who they are to be, space 's own characteristics exist to contrast that fact. This makes it so the Ganguli family and others can reside in an area and settle under the identities they create from the culture they choose to adopt, making it a place, while subsequently coming to terms with the lack thereof in a space and even finding something to be desired from that. In examining the abundance of both, showing double consciousness and absence of any, what divides and defines space/place becomes clear. These distinctions separating and signifying the two as act an underlying tone to the story 's own narrative when viewing culture at