Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

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Marjane Satrapi

Ingrid Character Analysis

Ingrid is one of Enrique’s friends at the anarchist commune. Though Marjane initially hates Ingrid (she thinks Ingrid is in love with Enrique), they soon become close friends. They spend most of their time together meditating or doing drugs. Ingrid also supplies Marjane with some of the drugs that she sells at school. Eventually, Marjane and Ingrid grow apart when Marjane’s relationship with Markus gets more serious. Though Marjane doesn’t give a lot of details about their process of growing apart, she feels unable to ask Ingrid for help when Marjane becomes homeless.
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Ingrid Character Timeline in Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

The timeline below shows where the character Ingrid appears in Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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...in public is considered sexual, so this is too much for her. Fortunately, Enrique’s friend Ingrid offers them a bedroom upstairs. Marjane and Enrique’s relationship has been nonsexual up to this... (full context)
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...must be too ugly for him. When Marjane goes downstairs and finds Enrique talking with Ingrid, she decides he must want Ingrid instead. Enrique pulls Marjane to a private part of... (full context)
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Marjane becomes good friends with Ingrid and spends most weekends at the commune, meditating or doing drugs. She doesn’t always like... (full context)
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...house, though, things are no better. Marjane doesn’t have marijuana anymore since she’s not seeing Ingrid much. Frau Doctor Heller kicks Markus out, insisting her home isn’t a brothel. She accuses... (full context)
The Veil
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Marjane knows she can’t go back to Zozo or Ingrid, and she has no interest in returning to evil Frau Doctor Heller. She sleeps on... (full context)