- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this chapter, Nila Wahdati--who becomes a great poet after leaving her husband, Mr. Wahdati--conducts an interview with a poetry magazine. In the interview, Nila talks about her career and her family, arriving at the depressing conclusion that children are always something of a disappointment.
As we know, Nila had adopted Pari years ago, hoping that having a child would bring her happiness and contentment. As the quotation makes very clear, being a mother hasn't brought Nila the happiness she'd assumed it would--it seems to have made her disappointed and melancholy (and surely quotes like this make Pari herself feel…