At the end of his first day he is sent home with a letter to his parents from Mrs. Lapidus, folded and stapled to a string aroun
d his neck, explaining that due to their son’s preference he will be known as Gogol at school. What about the parents’ preference? Ashima and Ashoke wonder, shaking their heads. But since neither of them feels comfortable pressing the issue, they have no choice but to give in. Which choice best states a conflict revealed in this excerpt? an external conflict between the educational values and viewpoints of Mrs. Lapidus and those of Gogol’s parents an internal conflict between Gogol’s wish to be called by his new name in school and his desire to please Mrs. Lapidus an external conflict between Gogol’s mother and father over the importance of Gogol using a different name in school an internal conflict between Mrs. Lapidus’s desire to respect Gogol’s wishes and her desire to respect his parents’ wishes
