She has made friends at school who remember her name and even invite her to their houses, ever since she has added the Anglican name to her own; an adverse effect of this decision is that people think she is American, so they tell her how they really feel about her and other Middle Easterners. This feeling of being fake to the people she is friends with causes her to go back to going by her first name once she goes off to college. After going by Firoozeh all throughout college, the author struggles to get a job after graduation, even though she was academically successful. Dumas senses that her issue in getting interviews is not due to her academic major, but in actuality it is her name, so she starts putting Julie on her applications and other documents and immediately starts getting
She has made friends at school who remember her name and even invite her to their houses, ever since she has added the Anglican name to her own; an adverse effect of this decision is that people think she is American, so they tell her how they really feel about her and other Middle Easterners. This feeling of being fake to the people she is friends with causes her to go back to going by her first name once she goes off to college. After going by Firoozeh all throughout college, the author struggles to get a job after graduation, even though she was academically successful. Dumas senses that her issue in getting interviews is not due to her academic major, but in actuality it is her name, so she starts putting Julie on her applications and other documents and immediately starts getting