The narrator brings out the contrast between the Indian way of life and the American society by the dressing style after he sees another Indian lady walking down the child in a pram a stumbling around. Mala initially had trouble adjusting comfortably to the new way of life as the lifestyle of the two countries where completely different from each other. Mala when she moves to U.S.A becomes home sick. But, later with the time passing on she gets adjusted.