The Gateway of India

3 a) Dwight Huntsinger is a bold and cheeky lawyer from Boston who has to negotiate with manufacturers because his firm wants to find outsourcing deals to move their production to India. He is frustrated because of his divorce and wants to risk something new. When Dwight spends his time in India he doesn’t want to try food from India or visit traditional sights, so he is very intolerant and disrespectful.

b) Dwight uses negative comparisons like grief (l. 39), ordeal (l. 28) and captivity (l. 55) to express his attitude towards India. He feels like he is caught in Mumbai and he just came there for the money, not for culture. He only sees the Indian potential for outsourcing deals but doesn’t want to get to know the Indian culture. There’s a metaphor in line 35 when Dwight compares his trip to India to the hell. This also symbolizes his attitude to see just the bad things and not to give up the comfort he is used to from the western world. The food stands for Dwight’s not existing will to give up old habits and to try something new.