Gholam: When Amir was returning to Afghanistan another character was introduced. “My driver was a chain-smoking, sweaty little man who introduced himself as Gholam, drove nonchalantly and recklessly, averting collisions by the thinnest of margins, all without so much as a pause in the incessant stream of words spewing from his mouth” (195).Gholam is a flat character. He is one-dimensional and could be considered the stereotypical Afghan cab driver.