Realism ends at the border between Fayrüz Agha and the other characters of the play, all of whom show depth and development. But Fayrüz Agha comes straight from older, stereotypical traditions of Sudanese characters, so much so that he evokes, for M. M. Badawi, the Sudanese servants of Yaqüb Sanüa's sketches, written in the 1870s.

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 951