The veil women here are presented as ghost like figures, denied genuine interiority. They appear primarily through the protagonist's gaz. We are invited into Marjane's fears, desires, frustrations, and political development, but the veil women are seldom granted a comparable inner life. Their political commitments appear self-evident, irrational, or socially imposed than historically produced. they can come across as figures existing outside history. The secular, cosmopolitan protagonist possesses interiority; the veil woman has no inner life.