Whats Wrong with Gogol?

As I keep reading the The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, I learn that Gogol seriously hates his name. He questions why his parents would name him something so odd. "I don't get it. How come you guys name me after someone so strange? No one takes me seriously," (Lahiri 100). But the only person who didn't take the name Gogol, seriously, was himself. So Gogol decides to change his name because, well, he can. Even his father gives him permission and tells him,"In America anything is possible. Do as you wish."(100). Now Gogol is no longer Gogol. We can now refer to him as Nikhil. Later we read that Nikhil's father, Ashoke finally tells Nikhil about the story behind Gogol. "He tells Gogol the story of the train he'd ridden twenty-eight years ago, in October 1961, on his way to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur. He tells him about the night that had nearly taken his life, and the book that had saved him, and about the year afterward, when he'd been unable to move."(123). So Gogol finds out that he wasn't just named after an Author, but an Author of a book that had saved his fathers life. Still confused and mad about the whole situation Gogol asks his father if he reminds him of that life. Ashoke replies," Not at all [...] You remind me of everything that followed. AW, well wasn't that sweet, Ashoke. I'm sure that Gogol is feeling pretty bad about changing his name now.