What is the nature of Kersi in the story Of White Hairs and Cricket?

The narrator's name, Kersi, is never mentioned in the story, but he is clearly the same Parsi Indian character named Kersi who appears in several of the other stories of the Swimming Lessons collection. Although shy, Kersi is becoming progressively "westernized" and enjoys displaying his new cultural knowledge, such as the make and model of the old man's son's car. He is a keen observer of the people in his apartment complex and is beginning to write about them, as is evident from the manuscript he sends to his parents in Bombay. He lives an interior life full of memories of Bombay that he frequently compares to his new life in Canada. He characteristically notices and thinks about the thematic and symbolic meanings of the things he observes.