Bharati Mukherjee is one of the pioneer writer who approached to give her point of view about the influence of western cultivation in her novels. 'Jasmine' is a novel, writen by Bharati Mukherjee set in the 1980s. The novel exposes how Jasmine, the womanish protagonist, as an outsider, strives to adapt her identity to fit in the mainstream American culture. In order to be capable to survive, she changes her identities several times. Mukherjee's own experiences of dislocation and exile in her life helps her in recording the emigrant experience of the protagonist in this novel. In this context this paper tries to delve on how Jasmine scrabble throughout her life and existential dilemmas of the novel 'Jasmine’