The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel written by Mohsin Hamid that illustrates the difference in life between Asians and Americans. He mostly tells us about the gap between the two cultures which cannot be filled. Hamid narrates the story of a young man named Changez who goes to America to find more opportunities. Although he got a good job and fell in love with a young American girl Erica. But, his American dream is not realized. The two of the lovers never accepted each other wholeheartedly. Neither the American society embraced him openly but kept him under suspicion all the time. Finally, the young man returns to his homeland, with a broken heart and disillusioned by the American perspective of Muslims.