She tries so hard to believe in the ideals of what a household should be, but in the end it goes against everything that she has experienced behind the walls that her family willingly hides behind. Iliana has been considered an outsider everywhere she goes, but at “home” she imagines that “she has an equal status. Nevertheless, when getting to her parents’ house, she is described as being “overwhelmed by politics of being home” (Pérez 30). That is because Iliana is both attracted and repelled by her household…” (Morais 114); she is attracted to the ideas of a home where she is safe and protected by her family, but also repelled by her family and the way that she is treated by them. She once received a terrible beating for contradicting Papito
