By strictly controlling the FutureMouse, his genetic experiment, Marcus effectively colonizes the animal in the name of science and progress, just as European countries colonized non-Western countries under the guise of helping these countries “develop. Marcus’s “Chalfenist” ways-his reliance on and faith in scientific rationality-can be seen to symbolize European or Western values. His FutureMouse project, a study in genetic experimentation, is a source of major conflict in the latter half of the novel, dividing the Chalfen, Iqbal, and Jones families-in part because Magid Iqbal becomes one of Marcus’s collaboraters on the project. However, Marcus is also intelligent and driven.

He is boisterous, arrogant, and at times somewhat tactless-he’s prone to making inappropriate or sexually charged comments (particularly about Irie Jones and about his wife, Joyce). Archie marries a Jamaican Samad has twin sons, one of whom becomes a religious militant, the other a rabid Anglophile. Marcus has four sons: Joshua, Benjamin, Jack, and Oscar. Published when Smith was just 24, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad.

Marcus Chalfen is the patriarch of the Chalfen family, an Oxbridge-educated scientist (“Oxbridge” refers to the prestigious British universities Cambridge and Oxford). Zadie Smith White Teeth: A Novel Paperback Jby Zadie Smith (Author) 5,682 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 40.56 91 Used from 2.25 11 New from 28.93 18 Collectible from 21.

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