Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Is he really different?
On page 259 in the book it talks about Fahmy and his desire to be with a girl named Maryam who is in his sister's wedding. The author explains to us his inner emotions and how he really wishes that he could be with Maryam, but he is supposedly not like his brother in the way that he sees and treats women. But here in this passage it kind of sounds to me that he is beginning to lust after something he can't have. Is he turning out to be like his brother a little in the way that he views women? On the previous page it shows how Fahmy sees her and that all his emotions are consumed with her and her presence and that he looks away at her because she is so beautiful. I t also talks about how he is in love with her smile and her whole being. I believe, by reading this, that Fahmy does have urges just like the ones that his older brother has, but he has a different way of expressing himself with them. Instead of trying to force himself on them he chooses to surpress his urge to be with them and he sees them as goddesses and something to be worshiped rather than lusted after. It talks about in the passage how he sees her but begins to laugh and talk to his friends even louder in order not to think about the emotion he was feeling for her down in his heart. It is like he is ashamed to let anyone know that he is lusting over her like it is a bad thing for him to think of women in that kind of way.
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I'm glad to see you go out on a limb and take a risky position! Show how this connects to the textual evidence? I want to know more!
ReplyDeleteWould it be easier on Fahmy if he just felt the way his brother did? Doesn't Fahmy have passions too -- that seems to be what you are asking.
Nailah–
ReplyDeleteI understand what you're saying but I don't really think that the desire Fahmy is feeling for Maryam is the same kind of lust that envelops Yasin everytime he sees a woman. The feeling that Fahmy has is more like a sweet and pure desire to be with the woman he loves. He wants to be with her but doesn't necessarily have any lustful cravings for her; he doesn't seem at all concerned with bodily desires. We can see this in the way he describes her. At Aisha's wedding he sees her and thinks,"It was a pure, sweet smile.... It was a smile that seemed too pretty to ever be replaced by a grimace of pain (259)." Fahmy doesn't think about her seductive body curves but instead about her angelical face. To put in our prospective he's the kind of guy that would describe a girl as pretty or beautiful instead of hot or sexy. I think he is really different.