House On Mango Street Cisneros Analysis

independent is limn the book, Cisneros uses irony to show how Esperanza is vulnerable in her new environment. There is an example of verbal irony in the line, “Most likely I will go to hell and most likely I deserve to be there”(58). This is ironic in the way in which she says she would go to hell when she could be considered to be in already. That is due to the fact women in Mango Street can't really escape from oppression they are hindered by for example a window. Just like in hell, life for women in Esperanza’s new environment are torture. Therefore the reason to why Cisneros put this in the book was to show how how life is for women in Mango street since there is a comparison of living in Mango Street to hell. There is an example of dramatic
irony in, “an old oriental man said hello and we talked about my just starting and he said we could be friends”(55). This is ironic in the way in the way that Esperanza thinks that he want to be literally her friend, but actually he want to be her friend in a sexual way. The fact that she fails to see this shows that she is still not ready to go into the world. At the moment she is at an age where she is easy to take advantage of. Therefore the purpose of this is to show that Esperanza is still vulnerable and not ready to go into the real world. There's situational irony since they moved to Mango Street expecting to live in a more safe and secure environment. This is ironic since it is the complete opposite since for Esperanza's sake her hopes of being independent are being hindered by the sense of oppression towards women in Mango Street. Therefore showing that her hopes of getting out of Mango Street so that she could be independent is limited. ited.