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Sang/Sangeeta Biswas
Farouk is Sang’s boyfriend of three years in “Nobody’s Business.” He’s an Egyptian professor of Middle Eastern history at Harvard. He displays controlling tendencies, keeping his distance from Sang’s close friends and avoiding permanent commitments. Despite Sang’s affections for him, he is manipulative and dishonest, often leaving her questioning his loyalty and her own sanity. Farouk exhibits abusive, narcissistic indifference that causes emotional harm to Sang, whom he uses while secretly pursuing other women, like Deirdre. When Paul becomes involved in Farouk and Sang’s relationship, Farouk becomes increasingly aggressive and threatening, and the two men eventually come to blows. Sang ultimately ends their relationship.
Farouk/Freddy Quotes in Unaccustomed Earth
The Unaccustomed Earth quotes below are all either spoken by Farouk/Freddy or refer to Farouk/Freddy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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5. Nobody’s Business
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“It’s not love.” In Sang’s opinion it was practically an arranged marriage. These men weren’t really interested in her. They were interested in a mythical creature created by an intricate chain of gossip, a web of wishful Indian-community thinking in which she was an aging, overlooked poster child for years of bharat natyam classes, perfect SATs.
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“Do you live here?” he asked.
“I painted the walls,” Sang said, as if that would explain everything. Paul remembered her painting her own room, listening to Billie Holiday.
The policeman leaned over, inspecting the broken glass and flower debris on the carpet, noticing the welts on her skin. “What happened?”
“I bought them,” she said, tears streaming quickly down her cheeks. Her voice was thick, ashamed. “I did this to myself.”
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Farouk/Freddy Quotes in Unaccustomed Earth
The Unaccustomed Earth quotes below are all either spoken by Farouk/Freddy or refer to Farouk/Freddy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
5. Nobody’s Business
Quotes
“It’s not love.” In Sang’s opinion it was practically an arranged marriage. These men weren’t really interested in her. They were interested in a mythical creature created by an intricate chain of gossip, a web of wishful Indian-community thinking in which she was an aging, overlooked poster child for years of bharat natyam classes, perfect SATs.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
“Do you live here?” he asked.
“I painted the walls,” Sang said, as if that would explain everything. Paul remembered her painting her own room, listening to Billie Holiday.
The policeman leaned over, inspecting the broken glass and flower debris on the carpet, noticing the welts on her skin. “What happened?”
“I bought them,” she said, tears streaming quickly down her cheeks. Her voice was thick, ashamed. “I did this to myself.”
