Analysis Of The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

“The House on Mango Street isn’t it. For the time being, mama says. Temporary, says papa. But I know how things go”(5-6). In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza is the main character who is a young girl who is naive and has different ways of seeing life. By the end of the novella she has matured and understands more about life because of experiences that both forced and motivated her to change. Esperanza had thought that boys and girls were nothing alike. She had thought that both genders had lived in the their own worlds. “The boys and girls live in separate worlds. The boys in their universe and we in ours” (8). Esperanza had nobody to really talk to. Her siblings were too young to understand what she was talking about,