Leila Hajjari

The present research, attempts to uncover the ambivalence of Lahiri’s second-generation migrant characters who are invariably subject to hybridizing forces of the American culture as well as their attempts, either failed or successful, to transform, to adjust to the novelty, to settle on the middle ground, or to hold on to their own cultural values and identities. Exploiting the relevant short stories that mainly address the second-generation migrants, “A Temporary Matter,” “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine,” and “Sexy,”. There will be an attempt in the up-coming pages to give exclusive attention to the inherited confusion of these migrants as heirs of diasporic ambivalence. It is hoped that the results of this study will be useful to those who want to further this or any other similar study of the issue of ambivalence in the second-generation migrants in Lahiri’s stories which so far has been rarely addressed separately by Lahiri scholars.