Ashima's Grandmother's opinion on Ashima living in Amerca

Ashima's grandmother would be proud of Ashima if she lived beyond the point of when Ashima and Ashoke started adopting American traditions.  On Page thirty-eight, Ashima's Grandmother directs Ashima to do what her grandmother would never do, saying that it'll be for the best.  Assuming that Ashima's grandmother was a traditional Bengali woman who stayed at home, took care of the family, and followed Bengali traditions, she would not have taken the risks or experimented with a new culture as Ashima is having to do.  Although, she never traveled to America as far as the readers know, she believed that Ashima was making the best choices in doing so. On page thirty-seven, the text states that Ashima's grandmother "was the only person to predict, rightly, that Ashima would never change," (The namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, page 37).  Ashima did change by adopting American traditions such as Christmas, but she did continue to uphold a Bengali culture in her household by sending Gogol and Sonia to Bengali cultured classes.  If Ashima's grandmother was living when Ashoke and Ashima started practicing American traditions, she would believe that Ashima has changed to adapt to her new surroundings which is doing something for the best of her family who are living in America.