Real Love or just Anger?

In the novel Palace Walk, we are reading about an Egyptian family who’s household is run by their father Ahmad. This Egyptian book takes place in the 1920’s when the British in 1922 had just left Egypt. Meaning that Egypt had just received their independence from Britain and were also very well influenced by the British. Lets remember that in the British culture woman were to stay home and do all of the household chores. The one thing that never happened in Britain were arrange marriages, unless of course you were royalty.
“Glancing at their mother with shame and embarrassment, Yasin laughed and said, The truth is that there’s a very strong link between the anger and the engagement”(286).
Yasin and his father Ahmad seemed to of gotten in an argument just because Yasin wants to get married. Now it seems that Ahmad is just getting angry because of the fact that Yasin doesn’t respect his decision. Why does Yasin have to say that the engagement is linked to the argument? Yasin is probably saying that so that in case his father hasn’t gotten the message maybe that statement will make it clearer. Earlier in the book we see how Yasin is proud of the fact that his father is a great lover. Yasin might be getting mad at his father because he sees that his father is a great lover and is trying to figure out why is it that his father doesn’t want him to do that to.
When the British still ran the Egyptian country they influenced the Egyptians a lot. In the British culture it was also ok for man to have a mistress but it was never ok for a woman to have a lover. Also women were not allow to write books just like in Egypt women are not allow to go to school. Thanks to Britain Egypt learned many things about discriminating women but they didn’t only learn it from the British they also learned it from the Quran. Palace Walk shows many ways in which women have no choice but to listen to the man because if they don’t then they will be embarrass and consider sluts.

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