Jayden Wang’s Reviews > The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A Man Booker Prize-Shortlisted Literary Novel of Love, Identity, and the American Dream > Status Update
Jayden Wang
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After reading to page 151, I found that all of Princeton, Underwood Samson, and all the "American Dream" that Changez has are only the outer layer, the cover he gives himself. After 911, he is still prejudiced and judges by his appearance. After he went back to Pakistan and talked with Juan-Bautista, I think he realized that no matter what he changes, he's still Pakistani inside, just like Ollie Young Bear in M1948.
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Jayden Wang
is on page 141 of 184
I started to understand the Changes Changez had through his experience in America, as he describes himself looking like a foreigner, and his own view of people also changed, to perspecitive like an unsympathetic American as he describes himself. Earlier in the book, in pg.67, he still says "as we Pakistanis", after going into Underwood Samson, the experiences of Erica, to the Philippines, all had changed him a lot.
— Jan 28, 2026 05:58AM
