Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Asieh Zabihnia Emran

Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The present article examines the behavioral aspects of women in the novel “ I turn off the lights” (1380) by Zoya Pirzad (born in 1331) based on the theory of being a woman from the point of view of Tony Grant (1942-2016). The novel “I turn off the lights” is a female-centered story, and out of twenty characters, fourteen female characters and six male characters have a prominent presence in this novel. The narrator and the main character of the mentioned novel is an educated housewife named Clarice Aivazian, who is stuck in repetition and everyday life. With the arrival of a neighbor named Emil Simonian, this monotonous flow changes. With a psychological point of view, he analyzes the character of today's woman and criticizes the loss of femininity in women's behavior. Grant divides women into different groups and narrates and explains their concerns to the audience. The present article uses a descriptive-analytical method to answer this main question that, ‘which of the types of women in the novel "I turn off the lights" is noteworthy according to Tony Grant's view of being a woman? According to the results of the research, the motherly aspect of the woman, i.e. the Amazon-mother, is the most frequent in the novel “I turn off the lights”, and in this work, the woman is condemned as a lovemate, and the motherly aspect of the woman has the highest status.

Keywords

• Zoya Pirzad
• I turn off the lights
• Tony Grant
• Being a woman
• Female character