Nana is the mother of Mariam as well as the mistress of Jalil in the novel 'A thousand splendid suns' by Khaled Hosseini. Nana lived in Jalil's house as a maid until she became pregnant with Jalil's child Mariam. In addition, Jalil built Nana a cabin in which she could live with her daughter Mariam. She comes from a poor family as her father was a simple stone sculptor and after the event he disowned her and left for Iran. Nana, of Tajik origin, is a minor character in this novel but her impact on life is very influential. His bitterness towards his life makes his appearance bitter. She is described as selfish, irrational and brutal as her daughter's guardian. There are qualities unique to him, some that show how life can be as hard as broken glass. It can be seen that she was never a strong woman as she always needed her daughter Mariam by her side at all times. Sometimes she tends to have these weird attacks that Mariam describes as "a jinn in her body." This “jinn” could be better understood as a combination of sadness and epilepsy. The actions one performs demonstrate a person's personality which develops and transforms throughout their life. Her actions largely show how she is as a person, as she seems crazy and out of this world, but she does it to prepare her daughter to be tough and deal with 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 a temper, she scolded her and called her a bastard. She continues to be mean as she quits her studies and kills all the hopes she spends. This behavior is clear from the first line of the novel: “Mariam was five years old….haram…… middle of paper… she thought while apologizing to Nana that she could have betrayed her or thrown her into a ditch . and sprinted, but she didn't. Instead, she had endured the humiliation of wearing a harami, had built her life around the thankless task of raising him and, in her own way, worshiping him. She wishes she was a better daughter to Nana. Overall, “The rope… of that.” page thirty-six. Nana's decision to commit suicide brings the audience back to a sympathetic point of view. The pain she suffered was greater than anyone had predicted; the sullenness she lived with wasn't enough for her to cling to. The pain of Mariam choosing Nana's mistake, over Nana, was just too much. During Nana, he tries to tell us that not everyone is strong. People will give in to the pains of life and seek the solitary recovery they can see: death..