When I read this, I smiled. I felt bad for Ma; she moved to a new country, not knowing what it would be like. She had to learn to adapt to the ways of life here, which is probably very different than how she lived in Bangladesh. Materialistic things might be more important here in the U.S. than where they came from. People act differently and Ma might have felt that she did not fit in because no one could relate to her. I think that she also would have gotten very bored of being at home, doing nothing.
I don't think she enjoyed living in the United States at first, but realized that it was best for her family. She didn't want to tell her husband or daughters that she did not like it here, so she pretended she was okay with everything. That might also be why she didn't want to call her mother when people were home. She didn't want everyone else to be homesick, and she didn't want them to go back to Bangladesh just because of her. She called home to try and go back to the old days when she always talked to her family, and things were easier. I think that after that initial homesickness, Ma felt a lot stronger and was able to carry herself better.
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