- Quizzical --> puzzlement = The writer is confused about how she is able to come out from the Muslim country
=> Emphasizes the confusion going on in the writer's brain
Blurt --> Say sth without precaution = One fact was completely denied by the lady's statement
=> Illustrates how stereotypes that people convey can be very different than what it actually is
Diction
- Feverishly --> Struggling to so something? = Hard to process information
=> The information of the woman was so unexpected, the word emphasizes that fact
"I guessed"
- Assumption made from his stereotypical view on Muslim culture
=> Going to a "Western style" meeting (wears pantsuit) but keeps her identity as a Muslim