How does Mohsin Hamid use ominous details and imagery to enhance atmosphere and create suspense in The Reluctant Fundamentalist? The Reluctant Fundamentalist, written by Mohsin Hamid, tells the story of a young Pakistani man named Changez, who arrived at Princeton at the tender age of 18. Four years later he graduated “without receiving even a B” (4), and began working at the elite appraisal firm Underwood Samson. Changez was, at first, infatuated with the idea of ​​the American Dream, but eventually realized that the new life he had adopted in New York constituted a betrayal of his deepest self, and he eventually returned home. However, although the story of Changez was set in American, the plot was actually set in Lahore, using a brilliantly handled framing device. Sitting in a restaurant in Lahore, Changez told his story over the course of a single evening to an unknown American, whose identity was gradually, but never completely, revealed by an eerie and suspenseful tide of information. entire novel, Hamid strives to do so...