Miss Iqbal Character Analysis in Woman at Point Zero

Miss Iqbal is one of ’s secondary school teachers. When Miss Iqbal finds Firdaus crying alone one night, she sits with her. Firdaus thinks Miss Iqbal’s look like her mother’s, as if light pours out of them, and when she takes Miss Iqbal’s hand she feels the dim stirring of sexual pleasure. Miss Iqbal becomes Firdaus’s first love, though neither she nor Firdaus truly realizes it. When Firdaus leaves school without ever having another encounter with Miss Iqbal, she is heartbroken.

Miss Iqbal Quotes in Woman at Point Zero

The Woman at Point Zero quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Iqbal or refer to Miss Iqbal. 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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All I can remember are two rings of intense white surrounded by two circles of intense black. I only had to look into them for the white to become whiter and the black even blacker, as though sunlight was pouring into them from some magical source neither on earth, nor in the sky.

Related Characters: Firdaus (speaker), Ibrahim, Bayoumi, Firdaus’s Mother, Miss Iqbal, Firdaus’s Stepmother

Related Symbols: Eyes

Page Number and Citation: 21-22

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