What do gogol's american girlfriends symbolize in the novel?

a: gogol's desire to remove himself from his indian heritage

b: gogol's belief that indian women are unattractive

c: gogol's desire to disappoint his parents

d: gogol's belief that only american women understand him

since it is asking for her reaction to elnora's trouble at school you can rule out any answers with a positive response (b). then you can rule out (d), this is because it does not show the mother's reaction but the daughter's response. that leaves you with two options (a) and (c), by looking at the options you can rule out (c) because it isn't referring back to elnora's issues at school.

in the sonnet 116 written by william shakespeare we can analyze the symbolism and say that he reuses the idea of love like a guiding star for the sailor.

reading through the poem we find out that in the line 7 there is a metaphor for the lover that is heading through the life events by love itself .