Question

In “A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman,” Which line best supports Mukherjee's point that she and her "compatriots" have "transformed America"?
"The larger political entity to which I gave my first allegiance – India – was not even a sovereign nation when I was born.""I am an immigrant; my investment is in the American reality, not the Indian.""The remaining struggle for me is to make the American readership, meaning the editorial and publishing industries as well, acknowledge the same fact.""The people I write about are culturally and politically several hundred years old: consider the history they have witnessed (colonialism, technology, education, liberation, civil war)."

Answer 1

This line points that the author and her compatriots have already transformed America: "The remaining struggle for me is to make the American readership, meaning the editorial and publishing industries as well, acknowledge the same fact."

The author already considers herself as an American writer in the American writing mainstream, she is only just finding ways on how she can further expand this and make people more aware of the issues that many immigrants face in America.

Answer 2

"The remaining struggle for me is to make the American readership, meaning the editorial and publishing industries as well, acknowledge the same fact."