Water Imagery in the Works of Eudora Welty, Teresa de la Parra, Kate Ch

Water Imagery in the Works of Eudora Welty, Teresa de la Parra, Kate Chopin, and manglea Luisa Bombal The pouring- conquer rain, the pouring down rain was that what she was saying over and over, like a song?. Eudora Welty, A Piece of intelligence operation Usually I prefer to stay at the family because there the river holds a serene and mysterious charm for me. (Por regla general yo prefiero quedarme en la toma, porque es alla en donde el rio tiene para mi aquel encanto sereno y misterioso). Teresa de la Parra, Iphigenia (The Diary of a Young Lady Who Wrote Because She Was Bored) (Ifigenia (Diario de una seorita que se escrib porque se fastidiaba)) The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. Kate Chopin, The Awakening And like this, naked and golden, I descend into the water (Y asi, desnuda y dorada, me sumerjo en el estanque). Mara Luisa Bombal, The Final Mist (La ltima niebla) Water imagery occurs repeatedly in the works of Eudora Welty, Teresa de la Parra, Kate Chopin, and Ma ra Luisa Bombal suggesting that it is intimately connected with the inner worlds of the female protagonists in these stories. The storm dramatizes Rubys death fantasy in A Piece of News by Eudora Welty. The river provides a place for Mara Eugenia to express herself in Iphigenia (The Diary of a Young Lady Who Wrote Because She Was Bored) (Ifigenia (Diario de una senorita que se escribo porque se fastidiaba)) by Teresa de la Parra. The sea elicits Ednas deepest desires in The Awakening by Kate Chopin, and the mist triumphs over the nameless narrators attempt to escape death in The Final Mist (La ltima niebla) by Mara Luisa Bombal. According to Carl Gustav Jung, water is the commonest symbol for the unco... ...h. Furthermore, Jungs explanation of water as carnality heavy with sexual love is linked with life, or the conception of children. However passion is also linked with death, because extreme passion is traditionally linked with sinfulness, which leads us to death rather than t o unceasing life in the Christian tradition (Archetypes 19). Jung also writes of the longing to attain rebirth through the return to the stupefys womb and the idea that the mothers womb is described using water imagery (207). Water thus links death, passion, birth, and life. But for the protagonists in these stories, these forces are somewhat out of sync. Failures of individuation, and the apogee of transformational journeys which lead to madness, resignation, and death point to an inability of the characters to reconcile their wants and needs with their actual lives.