Static characters mark a memoir’s failure to render lived complexity.

Evidence

Similarly, Keshavarz has remarked that Nafisi’s characters, unlike the characters of those novelists she praises, “do not change, and they most certainly do not grow” (Jasmine and Stars, 113). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 745

Categorization

Category: Craft and Method

• CANDY: A one-line critical zinger about Nafisi worth quoting in conversation about memoir versus fiction.