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Expression and Repression in Parras Iphigenia, The Diary of a Young Lady Who Wrote Because She Was BoredLike Ruby, Iphigenia uses irrigate imagery to dramatize her feelings and fantasies. But she besides turns to the river to express her wants and desires because she cannot do so freely in her Venezuelan home.After the death of her father, Mara genus Eugenia leaves Venezuela and her best friend Christina, to visit friends of the family in Paris. In Paris she experiences a sense of freedom that she has never known before, walking the streets alone, going to operas, and dressing as she pleases. But when she gets back to Caracas to expect with her aunt and grandmother, she becomes bored, feels imprisoned, and finds out that her Uncle Eduardo stole her inheritance, leaving her penniless and completely dependent upon him. Her only recourse is to get married to a wealthy petitioner. Unfortunately, Mara Eugenia falls in love with Gabriel, who is not her familys suitor of choice. Uncle E duardo moves the family to the country and intercepts Gabriels letters to Mara Eugenia. Soon Leal, a suitor to the familys liking, whom Mara Eugenia does not love, asks her to marry him and she accepts. A short time later, Mara Eugenias uncle Pancho falls ill, and Gabriel, a doctor, comes to the house to tend to him. When they see each other again, Mara Eugenia and Gabriel realize that they are both still in love, and he entreats her to pull back away with him, but Mara Eugenia cannot summon the courage to accept his offer. Instead, she accepts the life that her family condones, sacrificing herself as Leals wife.In this story water is closely associated with Mara Eugenias ability to express herself. She struggles throughout the novel to communicat... ...eal because of their cast. Splitting off from her family by going to Paris, confiding in and symbolically becoming the water, the green-world token, falling in love with Gabriel, the green-world lover, rebelling from her family, a nd engaging her unconscious bring her to the tip of self realization. But as a result of the influence of her family, Mara Eugenia accepts her familys expectations as her own, that which is contrary to the desires she expresses in the process of her transformational journey. In Pratts words, instead of growing up, Mara Eugenia experiences a growing down in which the protagonist accepts auxiliary or secondary personhood instead of self realization (36, 168). Instead of accepting herself during the process of individualism she rejects her love for Gabriel and her desire for freedom to conform to the wishes of her family.