Analysis Of Cisneros 'The House On Mango Street'

In The House on Mango Street, Cisneros depicts how the setting impacts the narrator by using language to show how the narrator's surrounding influenced her desires. At first the narrator was never one to be conscious of her social status as she was happy just being able to play around but that all changed after her interaction with the nun, “The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there… I knew then I had to have a real house” (paragraph 10-11). While the word “there” may just mean a place for an ordinary person, for the narrator it means that much more because of the way the nun enunciated it. The way the nun said “there” was filled with disgust because the narrator's house was shabby, and it was filled with confusion