Paragraph What should nila do for her family and for herself?
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Mrs. Nila Wahdati
Character Analysis
The beautiful, troubled wife of Mr. Suleiman Wahdati, Mrs. Nila Wahdati is an unpredictable, romantic, and undeniably talented woman. When she first appears in the early chapters of the novel, she’s desperate to have a child—and knows she’ll never succeed with her husband, a closeted homosexual. When Nabi arranges for Mrs. Wahdati to adopt Pari as her own child, Mrs. Wahdati moves to Paris with Pari, where she begins her a career as a poet, and begins to resent her new daughter. In the end, Mrs. Wahdati seems to regret her decision to adopt Pari, and views her life as a failure in almost every way. She commits suicide when Pari is a young woman