In the adaptation of Walt Disney's story, she defies her father, which is related to the sense of wanting to be independent by going against a patriarchal society, but her reasons for doing so are not those that they should be. Her father, Triton, who eventually delivers her to Prince Eric to marry, watches her every move. After all her struggle to leave the sea to be free, she is never truly free; it is simply transferred from one male to another. This idea comes from the American wedding ritual in which the father walks his daughter down the aisle of the church (Dundes 120). Furthermore, this protagonist relies heavily on her friends who are all male. This shows that her portrayal is simply a woman who cannot think or speak for herself. This interpretation of the story is changed to conform to male ideology (120). Even in Andersen's original version, the idea that the Little Mermaid must conform to the Prince's ideals and depend on him to not die is simply a generalization of the oppression of women by the male gender: "One might venture to say that the tale by HC Andersen thus thematizes the suppression of female and maternal subjectivity in the patriarchal order” (Dahlerup 146). It is important to note that in the original version Andersen uses the female figure as the wicked sea witch. Perhaps this means pointing towards the patriarchal society in which the mermaid lives