With the help of Lillian Gordon, a woman who helps Jasmine assimilate to life in America, Jasmine finds herself in New York, where she lives with Professor Devinder Vadhera, her deceased husband's former teacher. Upon her arrival at Vadhera’s home, Jasmine soon realizes that her exclusion from American life appears to be beginning yet again. As a result, she attempts to separate herself from all that is Indian in an effort to continue to make progress in her American life rather than falling back into the confines of her Indian past. After spending five months in this apartment, Jasmine negotiates a deal with Vadhera, who ultimately helps her acquire a forged green card. 

Soon after, Jasmine finds herself working as a caregiver to Duff, the adopted daughter of Taylor and Wylie Hayes in New York. Over the course of her time with this family, Jasmine believes that she becomes truly American and even comes to view them as her own family. A quotation that shows her desire to...

Jo wanted to leave for a little bit and decided to go stay with her moms friend for six months in New York City. Here she studies German and writes romantic stories for newspapers as a job. Jo also wanted to get away from Laurie because she views him like a sibling and nothing more, so she figured if she distanced himself his romantic feelings may change for her. 

Louisa May Alcott's family lived here all her life.

"Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty." 

This quote is when Beth's illness makes Jo appreciate their home and the people that make up their home.

Though finally happy in her life in New York, Jasmine soon finds herself in danger when she spots one of the terrorists involved in the bombing that killed her husband in India in a park in New York. As a result, she moves to Iowa, marries Bud Ripplemeyer, raises an adopted child named Du with him, and even finds herself pregnant. However, Iowan life proves to be much more complex than initially expected, for Bud gets shot, which leads to his paralysis from the waist down. In turn, Jasmine finds herself, once again, leading an unsatisfying life.

Sam Pagliuca