Kokile constantly commands Gopi to use her brain, when going shopping for Aham's room what did Kokila tell Gopi, but she's just wasting her breath, Gopi trusts Rashi, and it's reinforced by Urmila's physical abuse, so Gopi even when she knows that what Rashi is saying and doing is wrong, she has been intimidated to doing what they want, if you watched the recent episode when Rashi and her went shopping, when Gopi asked about the money when she questioned the colour choice, she knew if she questioned more or decided No I'm going for this colour, she would be in trouble with Urmila, also she has no leg to stand on really in the Modi house, if Aham were to respect her and treat her with patience and love, she wouldn't have to do as Rashi and Urmila say. But still she has Kokila on her side, so when they abuse her she can tell her, but I question how far Kokila's loyalty is also...as she was there telling Gopi off about the newspaper after Holi, when she has asked Gopi to take a number and name from her diary Gopi can't do it, her son has told her on three occasions that he doesn't like Gopi because she is uneducated, the first time after he slapped her, the second time when when Kinjal got married and he went to extract the promise to send Gopi the Gawar away and he was incapable of accepting a Gawar as his wife, the third the same when Naani left I can't bear her mum she's a Gawar, so what more evidence does Kokila need that her son will not accept Gopi without her being educated, perhaps Kokila is the slow, dumb one, but more likely she is afraid of Gopi becoming too powerful in the house and she (Aham's mother) being sidelined, as she was afraid of when they just got married, i think this fear has not left her, that's why she is not doing anything about educating Gopi, that's why I cannot totally like her character.
Edited by Nafisa_blossoms - 14 years ago