01-02-2025, 12:40 AM
(31-01-2025, 08:05 PM)Lollobionda Wrote: I have the feeling that Nadir is not interpreting and assessing Meena's concern and reticence quite correctly.
He says himself that she is asking him with her looks to help her and free her from this situation.
And yet he goes one step further by giving the two old men a “license” to carry on through his gestures and behaviour.
Nadir must see that Meena is not prepared to give herself to the two men. And that she does not feel the slightest "lust",
as she did with Mansour and once with Jalal.
He can not be so blind as to ignore that ...
I think in the end it will be Meena who acts rationally and puts an end to it all. Because Nadir is trapped in his fantasy
and is no help to her ...
In this sense
All the best
Lollobionda
Guten abend mein Freund,
It never happened in the course of the story that Meena felt a desire and lust, for someone other than her Nadir, primarily and immediately upon the first meeting.
With Mansour we know that (at least at the beginning), the relationship was based purely on violence and blackmail and one cannot say that Meena was attracted to him erotically and immediately accepted him as a lover with open arms. By the end of the story one could determine that the relationship was based on pressure, maybe in different percentage ratios but still...
The encounter with Jalal was different, Menna's behavior towards him was rather reserved and oriented towards Nadir's will and inclination, but at the same time amazed by his great feelings of love for her. But she didn't let him in with desire right away and especially at the beginning.
I don't want to say that lust and physical desire, from Meena's side, weren't there, but with each of these men, the issue had come up in later stages of the encounter.
The big difference between the situations, however, for Nadir, is that here he is present, he can direct and he can dictate and he can control at the same time... At least at this phase of narrate he believes so…
He has known these two for some time and he knows how they tick, which he doesn't know at all about Mansour and with Jalal (who kept a certain distance from him and was never 100 percent honest with him, there was always a certain membrane between them. I guess this was because of Jalal's personality who was jealous of Nadir in relation to Meena, although he always claimed that they were friends.
The characters of these two, mainly Tahir and then Farzan (who is a conservative and rather fearful type who prefers to follow Tahir and enter after him), are (as is shown in the course of the story) very clear, as far as one can judge (in this respect there is no such thing as 100%!).
That's interesting, but I'm and I was sure that the way these two behave in relation to Meena and Nadir at the current stage could never be possible with Jalal and Mansour. The two of them would have used any possible tricks to try to catch Meena alone somewhere and achieve their goal, as we have often seen...
One has an open character and shows himself as he is, and the other hides his real face behind a nice mask... Both want to achieve their goal, maybe they'll manage it, but I prefer the first one!
Enjoyable times,
Salir