![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This final scene is highly open to interpretation, and captures the ways that the Stranger and Changez and the other Pakistani’s in the group following might fall prey to misinterpretation of each other. Perhaps, in fact, this encounter with the Stranger will help to determine who Changez becomes. Perhaps, though, this is because he doesn’t know yet. It is irritating that Changez rushes the end of his story The Reluctant Fundamentalist has been a novel about a young man who grows up, but Changez seems to be unconcerned with explaining what he has grown up to be in much depth. At the same time, he raises the possibility that the group is as afraid of the Stranger as he is of them this implies that the group, and perhaps Changez, too, is no threat to the Stranger, or is following in order to protect Changez from the Stranger. Changez's insistence that he doesn't know the group walking behind them only suggests that he does know them. Now that the Stranger hears an unsettling sound, Changez's explanation is even less convincing there are many reasons why the waiter might seem angry with the Stranger, but only so many sounds that resemble a gunshot. ![]() So far, the Stranger has been unsettled by things he sees - things which Changez explains away, often by citing Pakistani custom. ![]()
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