![]() ![]() 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). Marcus has four sons: Joshua, Benjamin, Jack, and Oscar. Marcus Chalfen is the patriarch of the Chalfen family, an Oxbridge-educated scientist (“Oxbridge” refers to the prestigious British universities Cambridge and Oxford). ![]()
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