Firoozeh Dumas The F Word Essay

In the short story “The F Word,” Firoozeh Dumas told us about the tragic infortune to have a foreign name. Since her childhood, her name was misspelled by people givn multifarious names such as “Froozy, Frizzy, Fiorucci, and Frooz.” She had to live with this discomfort because she was in a country wherein monosyllabic names govern. Moreover, by calling those names, she lost the beautiful significance of her name which is “Turquoise.” Even her brothers named Farbod and Farshid which mean “Greatness” and “He who enlightens” became “Farthead” and “Fartshit.” We could note that Dumas reveals us the effect when two culture opposed collide with one another. One culture will overpower the other; rarely both culture will live in mutual harmony. Our …show more content…
Due to the fact, that one culture overpowers the other. Hitherto, we could arrive to the point that we regret our names which means our culture and want to change to name which has the supremacy. Dumas did this choice stating “I wanted to add an American name,” and called herself “Julie.” Since then, she had an easy life; she was not rejected, she was accepted because she assimilated to the predominant culture. “I spoke English without an accent and was known as Julie, people assumed I was American.” However, she did forget who she was and took back her original name “Firoozeh” until she was looking for a job. Even she graduated with honors from UC-Berkeley she could not have a sole interview as late as she decided to come up with “Julie Dumas” and got a job. We could notice that despite the effort of Firoozeh to impose her name, the society in which she lived will not let her have the last word. In the end, she was compelled to have a name that the society recognize as a name. Notwithstanding, she was known as Firoozeh by his family and non-American friends, and also as “Julie” by her coworkers and American friends, she began to live a double life being two different