Nila Wahdati Analysis

NILA AS THE VICTIM OF CULTURAL DISLOCATION: FRACTURED IDENTITY OF NILA WAHDATI IN PARIS

Nila is unhappy half French woman that writes poems about lovers, she wears modern clothes. Nila is portrayed as a young stylish housewife who writes impassioned erotic poetry to gain cheap popularity in France. Pari couldn’t understand her mother since she had many faces. A patriarchal culture is again seen where Nila grew up not enjoying freedom of speech and is oppressed by her dominant father. Nila’s activities are absolutely monitored and her father controls her life, which then triggers Nila’s rebellion and feminist revolution. In real life she was different but in her poems herself was depicted in a different way. Pari always felt lonely Nila and

Her adopted daughter Nil remains in illusions about her Maman. She suffers the loss of her identity living in France as she feels culturally dislocated. She feels that she has become a shattered piece of self. Nila Wahdati told many lies to her. She painted her character in new bright colors in her interviews. She had become a controversial figure in France. Hosseini depicts mother daughter relationship in simple language. There was no one who could solve the dilemmas of life. In desperation Pari cries in a lyrical voice

Was she merely a gifted trickster? A magician, with a pen for a wand, able to move an audience by conjuring emotions she had never known herself? Was that even possible? Pari does not know—she does not know. And that, perhaps, may have been Maman’s true intent, to shift the ground beneath Pari’s feet. To intentionally unsteady and upend her, to turn her into a stranger to herself, to heave the weight of doubt on her mind, on all Pari thought she knew of her life, to make her feel as lost as if she were wandering through a desert at night…( Mountains Echoed