Marjane- fail in Western culture and sucess in experience 2 different culture.

 " I didn't know whether or not they knew about my European failure. I was scared that they would be disappointed." (258)

To Marjane, after a few years lived in Austria and suffered from the divergent between two totally different cultures, she felt that she had failed with life in an Europe country. We can see that the way she tried to cope with the new culture is not good for her as she got lost and didn't know who she was and what was she doing. Marjane learned how to smoke, did make up and dressed up like punks, went to party and lied about her identities to avoid trouble from her nationalities because she thought they are ways to help her to get involve in the society and make people admit who she was. In fact, she just tried to escaped from the reality and fell in the obsession about deviance toward Iranian and the new life in new country. It leads to her depression and suffering with the big question "Who am I?"

On the other hand, in my own opinion, I felt like she was not fail at all. To be honest, isn't it all of us have time when we face any troubles and suffer because we don't know what to do? Failure is normal, actually if we never experience we will never know how is it like, what may happened if we do this thing or how the trouble can affect us. Marjane is a normal human being. We can't discriminate her for her bad behaviors that lead to the  failure. Actually, she had succeed in experience the difficulties of both culture and became mature after all. From when she talked to her father and friends back in Iran, she recognized the things were happening her own country and the society- the people live in that country. She could understand and sympathize with the situation that people met could shape the personality they are. Therefore she is no longer a little girl with weird ideas about life, always listen and follow her parents idea, but she had many point of views herself due to her experience and she can judge the world in the more wide aspects.

 At this point, she was just a normal person who failed and got lost at the middle of life try to balance and figure out herself - she was a girl who growing up and learning things from her experience.