Dania Faruqui
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What is wrong with Habara in the story "Scheherazade" ? Why can't he move put of his house? Is he some kind of prisoner and is the profession of the women legal in Japan?
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Aurora Shele
@lyn explanation on another question seems to hold in my opinion. " I don't think it's an actual legit job. That story was about illicit underworld activities, and I got the feeling Schehehazade was hired as a "support liaison" by the criminal group who was providing the guy a safe house to lie low until the "heat" dissipates. The source of the heat isn't explicitly stated that I can recall, but I think the reader can presume they're trying to evade law enforcement or else another gang. I don't know that it's wise to draw assumptions about the whole culture based on a short story about criminals."
Caterina Alvarez Fagelson
I read Habara’s unknown handicap as the answer to the original “One Thousand and One Nights” main character’s handicap - jealousy. In the original story the Sasanian king finds out his wife has been unfaithful and has her killed. I think this story’s upfront admission to a relationship with that folktale allows us to assume Habara shares a equally debilitating problem although it’s not entirely similar. He does little to keep his Sheherezade coming back but he cherishes her stories as a life source and his only viable view into the obscure, a world he wishes to penetrate more deeply.
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