![]() That much she knew." Discuss the importance of "saving face" for Iranian women in the 1950s. But she had no choice but to bear it, to try to navigate within it. On page 56, after discovering Bahman’s mother believes he should marry Shahla, Roya tries to contain her anger: "This was the societal web of niceties and formalities and expected good female behavior that often suffocated her. On page 3, Roya observes, "For hadn’t she married a man who was reasonable and, my goodness, unbelievably understanding? Hadn’t she, in the end, not married that boy, the one she met so many decades ago in a small stationery shop in Tehran, but lassoed her life instead to this Massachusetts-born pillar of stability?" How are Bahman and Walter different? How are they similar? What do you think Roya was looking for in each of them? How do her expectations for a relationship change throughout the story?ģ. Discuss the similarities and differences between her life as a married woman in New England and her life as a teenager living in Tehran.Ģ. The first two chapters show us very different stages in Roya’s life. ![]()
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