House On Mango Street Women

In “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros she strongly discusses the gender roles of women. The book discusses the situation of women at the time, and turns to the negatives of the situation to emphasize the need of improvement. This is highlighted in the repetition of various similar cases of different women, and by the emphasis of the perspective of women in the eyes of society.

Cisneros repeats various negative and similar cases of different women which ultimately shed light on the need of improvement of the situation of women. This could be seen in the similarity of the vignettes “Marin” and “Sally”. In the vignette “Marin”, Esperanza writes “Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life.”, and in the vignette “Linoleum Roses” were Esperanza writes “She says she is in love, but I think she did it to escape.” These two vignettes are both very similar since the both use the rather negative parts of the situation of women, marrying young/the dependence of a man, to highlight the gravity of the situation, to express the
This is evident in the vignette “Alicia Who Sees Mice” were Alicia’s father states, “close your eyes and they’ll go away, her father says, or you’re just imagining. And anyway, a woman’s place is sleeping so she can wake up early with the tortilla star, the one that appears early just in time to rise and catch the hind legs behind the sink, beneath the four-clawed tub, under the swollen floorboards nobody fixes, in the corner of your eyes.” This underscores the negative view that men have on women that is, men believe that women are only useful for the most basic tasks, in this case making tortillas, and reproduction. The fact that men are discouraging women emphasizes the need of men to improve the situation by encouraging them to