The Story of My Experiments with Truth Foreignness and "the Other" Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #4

The clothes after the Bombay cut that I was wearing were, I thought, unsuitable for English society, and I got new ones at the Army and Navy Stores. I also went in for a chimney-pot hat costing nineteen shillings—an excessive price in those days. Not content with this, I wasted ten pounds on an evening suit made in Bond Street, the centre of fashionable life in London; and got my good and noble-hearted brother to send me a double watch-chain of gold. (1.15.5)

Does changing your clothing change who you are? Appearances do make an impression on other people, and you know what they say: when in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Quote #5

As if all this were not enough to make me look the thing, I directed my attention to other details that were supposed to go towards the making of an English gentleman. I was told it was necessary for me to take lessons in dancing, French and elocution. (1.15.6)

Like many migrants, Gandhi wants to belong and fit in.

Quote #6

I had not to spend a lifetime in England, I said to myself. What then was the use of learning elocution? And how could dancing make a gentleman of me? The violin I could learn even in India. I was a student and ought to go on with my studies. (1.15.8)

Gandhi eventually sees that his desire to fit in as an English gentleman is kind of a trap. His job is to be Gandhi, and he came to England to study law.