MOTIFS: JEALOUSY

Jealousy plays a big part in Modaq Alley. Hamida is jealous of the other girls because she thinks that she deserves to be like them. Abbas dies because of his uncontrollable jealousy of Hamida with the British soldiers. Mrs. Kirsha gets very jealous of her husband when he shows interest in a young boy.

Theme: Jealousy will make you crazy but it shows how much you care about someone.

“The woman tossed her unhappy memories over in her mind, and the pain which so embittered her life returned.”