Sanjeev

Sanjeev is definitely of the business personality. He makes sure that he has everything in place. On page 137 it says "Sanjeev was organizing his engineering texts from MIT in alphabetical order on a bookshelf." That shows that he is very particular about the things in his life and he knows where each of them belong. Then there is the passage that further expounds upon his oddity. "he would walk each evening across the Mass. Avenue bridge to order Mughlai chicken with spinach from his favorite Indian restaurant on the other side of the Charles and return to his dorm to write out clean copies of his problem sheets." Yet another example of his need to have order in his life and a sense of control over the many areas that he lives in. He tries to keep everything in order and neat.

He also tries to box people into categories that in his mind keep them to something easy and explainable. The quote "he was further puzzled that Twinkle, who normally displayed good taste, was so charmed." This was taken after the fact that Twinkle had began to take a liking to the many different Christian objects that they found throughout the house. Sanjeev, and his categorization of her as a Hindu who did not like Christian paraphernalia, was unable to find a reason as to why she broke the mold. He was unable to control her thoughts and actions and therefore began to question the situation he was in. Later on the author goes into what Sanjeev looks like and they talk about the plumpness of his cheeks and the length of his eyelashes and he was worried because he thought that the many things that were odd on his face would detract from his distinguished looks. So all in all I would say that he is a man of control. Yet not to fall in the same situation as Sanjeev I know that people have the ability to change and he showed that occasionally throughout the text.