François Dumas Character Analysis in Funny in Farsi

Firoozeh’s classmate at Berkeley, fiancé, and later husband, François Dumas comes from a wealthy, worldly Catholic family that is nonetheless appalled when he marries an Iranian woman. François, like Firoozeh, is an adventurous, open-minded person, and over the course of the book he tries many new foods and travels to many new places alongside Firoozeh. In part because he was raised in a wealthier household than Firoozeh, he exoticizes and fetishizes the rugged, “authentic” outdoors, where Firoozeh almost always prefers air conditioning and bug spray.

François Dumas Quotes in Funny in Farsi

The Funny in Farsi quotes below are all either spoken by François Dumas or refer to François Dumas. 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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Once my mother realized that I wanted to marry François, she said, "He will be like a third son to me," and wiped the tears off her face. At that very moment, my mother threw aside everything she and her generation knew about marriage and entered a new world where daughters select their own husbands. She became a pioneer.

Related Characters: Nazireh (speaker), Firoozeh Dumas (speaker), François Dumas

Page Number and Citation: 144

Explanation and Analysis:

In Chapter 22, Firoozeh has decided that she’s going to marry François Dumas, a French classmate of hers at Berkeley. When she introduces François to her parents, she’s somewhat afraid that they’ll refuse to support the marriage, because François isn’t Iranian, and he’s a Catholic. However, to Firoozeh’s delight and relief, her parents are very happy about the marriage. In Firoozeh’s eyes, Nazireh then becomes a “pioneer” for feminist values by supporting her daughter’s decision to marry François, rather than trying to cling to the traditions Nazireh herself was raised with. Nazireh is one of the most moving characters in Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam offici

The girl we had selected was undoubtedly the underdog. She was quite overweight, she was the least physically attractive, and she had the smallest cheering section. She was, however, the most articulate.

Related Characters: Firoozeh Dumas (speaker), François Dumas

Page Number and Citation: 178

Explanation and Analysis:

In this chapter, Firoozeh and her husband, François, are traveling in the Bahamas. The owner of the hotel where they’re staying, who’s from the same part of Iran as Kazem, asks François and Firoozeh to judge a beauty pageant. Firoozeh is highly reluctant to do so, since she regards beauty pageants as offensive for the way they enforce conventional beauty standards onto women. However, during the course of the pageant, Firoozeh finds a way to subvert these beauty standards. Instead of voting for the most conventionally beautiful woman, she and her husband vote for the most articulate woman, even though Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut

My husband has since taken the situation into his own hands, hiding all our screwdrivers and hammers before my parents visit.

Related Characters: Firoozeh Dumas (speaker), Kazem , Nazireh , François Dumas

Page Number and Citation: 184

Explanation and Analysis:

As Kazem gets older, he continues to behave in a funny, somewhat eccentric manner. He thinks that he’s talented enough to repair anything, and so whenever anything in his house breaks, he tries to fix it himself rather than waste money on a repairman. But of course, Kazem isn’t as good with his hands as he thinks, and most of the things in his house are broken. He also tries to repair things in other people’s homes. That’s why, whenever Kazem comes to visit François and Firoozeh in their new apartment, Firoozeh and François make sure to hide the tools. Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicab

François Dumas Character Timeline in Funny in Farsi

The timeline below shows where the character François Dumas appears in Funny in Farsi. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

Later on, when Firoozeh is studying at Berkeley, she meets her husband, a Frenchman named François Dumas. Being French in America, Firoozeh realizes, is very different from being Iranian-American. Americans immediately... (full context)

Firoozeh’s husband, François, loves traveling. His grandfather was Greek, and died in Baghdad, and his grandmother was Belgian.... (full context)

Later on, Firoozeh marries François, a Catholic, and becomes “a card-carrying member of the Christmas Club.” She loves celebrating Christmas:... (full context)

Firoozeh’s marriage to François begins with a lie: she tells her family that François’s family is happy about the... (full context)

Firoozeh’s family loves François: they meet him for the first time after Firoozeh’s junior year of college. By this... (full context)

Kazem and Nazireh love François, not just because he’s a good person but because Firoozeh clearly loves him, too. Nazireh... (full context)

Shortly after the wedding plans are made official, it becomes clear that some members of François’s family won’t be attending, including his grandmother and one of his sisters. However, both of... (full context)

Firoozeh and François are married twice, with a Persian ceremony and a Catholic ceremony. Finding a priest who... (full context)

Firoozeh and François move into an apartment in San Francisco. Shortly afterwards, there’s a big earthquake, and all... (full context)

Since getting married, Firoozeh has hoped that François’s side of the family will begin to be happy for them. After the earthquake, she... (full context)

A few days later, the elderly woman who Firoozeh comforted shows up at Firoozeh and François’s apartment. She introduces herself as Golda Rubenstein and tells Firoozeh that she saved her life.... (full context)

François and Firoozeh decide that they have no use for the china dishes (which haven’t broken,... (full context)

One day, François and Firoozeh take a drive and stay in a hotel. Late at night, Firoozeh is... (full context)

...he’s saved so many airline miles, he often treats his family to free trips. After François and Firoozeh have been married for a year, Farshid offers them a free flight to... (full context)

François and Firoozeh spend all day trying to find a way to leave Nassau and travel... (full context)

François and Firoozeh notice that they seem to be the only tourists in Spanish Wells. A... (full context)

The next day, the pageant begins. The two other judges, in addition to François and Firoozeh, are a beautiful former pageant winner and a wealthy, drunk Canadian who owns... (full context)

...remember the pageant, and the former pageant winner emphasizes the need for an articulate winner. François and Firoozeh are drawn to an “underdog” candidate—she’s overweight, not particularly physically attractive, and doesn’t... (full context)

...with fury—by far the most popular candidate, a conventionally beautiful woman named Chantal, has lost. François and Firoozeh manage to get out of the auditorium before the crowd kills them. That... (full context)

...look as if they’ve been covered in strange blotches. On another occasion, Kazem decides that François and Firoozeh need a medicine cabinet in their bathroom, and builds it himself. Kazem installs... (full context)

François Dumas Character Analysis

François Dumas Quotes in Funny in Farsi

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François Dumas Character Timeline in Funny in Farsi