Most underrated character

 The play English by Sanaz Toossi is a play about the struggle with ones identity When trying to become fluent in another language. The overarching theme highlights that when trying to learn a new language like English, people often lose the ability to express themselves and are better understood in their native tongue. This is shown frequently with characters like Elham and Roya who believe they are leaving a part of themselves behind when they try to attempt English for others. One character that stuck with ,however, was Omid. With his fluency in English, he was easily the best English speaking person in the room, Yet even then he is often misunderstood in the classroom. 

Omid initially joined the classroom in order to gain confidence in his own language skills despite his fluency in English. He is a complex and odd character because despite being the best speaking one there, he still is not convinced that he is fluent enough in English and therefore requires the self confidence from a classroom of not so fluent English speakers who have never really been to England or the US. He wants to be compared with other people who are struggling to learn English rather than native speakers because he knows that he wont fit in with them. Then again he does not really fit in well with the non native speakers because he knows much more to them. Omid exists in a gap between sides and wishes to eventually find himself on one of them. Despite being the fluent in English, Marian and the others still fail to understand him throughout the play.