Nana is Mariam's mother as well as Jalil's lover in the novel "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. Nana lived in Jalil's house as a maid until she became pregnant with Mariam, Jalil's daughter. Furthermore, Jalil built Nana a shack in which she could live together with her daughter Mariam. She comes from a poor family as her father had been a common stone carver and after the incident he disowned her and went to Iran. Nana, an ethnic Tajik, is a minor character in this novel but her impact on life is very influential. His harshness towards his life makes his appearance seem bitter. One describes her as selfish, irrational and outspoken as a guardian to her daughter. There are qualities about her, some that show how life can be as hard as broken glass. It is seen that she was never a strong woman as she always needed her daughter Mariam by her side at all times. Sometimes he tends to have these bizarre attacks that Mariam describes as “a djinn in his body. This “jinn” could be further understood as a combination of sadness and epilepsy. The actions you take demonstrate your personality which develops and transforms over the course of your life. Her actions show a lot of who she is as a person as she seems crazy and out of the ordinary, but she does this to prepare her daughter to be tough and face the reality of how brutal life can be. At one point Mariam accidentally dropped a Chinese tea set that was the only historical item they had, destroying its contents and causing it to fall into oblivion. With such character, he scolded her and called her a bastard. She continues to be spiteful as she interrupts her studies and kills any hope she has. This behavior is clear from the first line of the novel: “Mariam was five years old….haram…… middle of paper……she thought apologetically to Nana that he might betray her or throw her into a ditch and ran away, but she had not Done. Instead, he had endured the humiliation of carrying a harami, had based his life on the unrewarding task of raising her and, in his own way, worshiping her. She wished she was a better daughter to Nana. Overall, “The rope… of it.” page thirty-six. Nana's decision to take her own life brings the audience back to a sympathetic point of view. The pain he suffered was greater than anyone had anticipated; the indolence he lived with wasn't enough to hold on to. The pain of Mariam choosing Nana's mistake, over Nana, was just too much. Throughout Nana she tries to inform us that not everyone is strong. People will surrender to the pains of life and seek the solitary recovery they can see: Death.