Zadie Smith explores the theme of cultural displacement and broken identity in The Waiter’s Wife, a story set in late twentieth century London. It narrates the experiences of Samad Iqbal,a Bangladeshi immigrant waiter and his wife Alsana, who struggle with the dissonance between their cultural roots and the pressures of assimilation. Samad’s constant yearning for a lost homeland and Alsana’s frustration with her constrained existence expose migration and colonial history.Their marriage becomes a site of conflict where generational anxieties and cultural dislocations surface sharply.This study aims to analyze how displacement reshapes personal and collective identity, while interrogating the role of power, class and gender in structuring immigrant existence.By focusing on their unsettled lives, the article shows how Smith reclaims the silenced voices of immigrants caught between belonging and estrangement. Drawing upon postcolonial theory, the article portrays London not as a seamless multicultural space but as a contested terrain of negotiation, alienation and identity struggle.
MALARVANNAN et al. (Thu,) studied this question.