Question

Why does jhumpa lahiri end "the third and final continent" by describing the narrator's future

Answer 1

The author ends the third and final continent because he starts to live a happy and peaceful life with his family, and that was what he had always wished for.

• The question has been asked from the story, The third and final continent
• The story is about Isolation, loneliness, strangeness, and feeling out of place in a strange world, but it's also about coming home. The narrator is a Bengali man, who had left his house and moved to London for a better living.
• The man then gets married, and tries to fit in with his new home and bride. Croft, an elderly widowed lady, manages to make the young man feel less lonely.