Nevertheless, the narrator recounts Mustafa’s confession that he equally desired death, only that he was too afraid to commit suicide after murdering his lover. Jean’s utterances, as they reflect how she still dared Mustafa, in this scene teach the audience that gender violence was a precursor for death and self-destruction. However, this scene is a culmination of a series of incidents in which Jean Morris provokes Sa’eed to act violently, often challenging him to murder her. The fact that Jean Morris beseeches her brutal lover to “come with her” indicates that she equally wished him death. Essentially, this scene could be interpreted as the embodiment of the gender violence theme in the novel, as Mustafa goes ahead to make love to a dying woman after stabbing her.
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