The House On Mango Street Analysis
Marci Z.
PLS 201- L24
Assignment #1
09/22/13
“For the Ones who cannot out” Esperanza’s name means hope, and her legacy she leaves behind can give the trapped women in her neighborhood faith that they too will be able to leave this place behind. In Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street, Esperanza Cordero realizes that she really can’t leave from Mango Street, a rundown neighborhood in Chicago. In Esperanza’s journey, she yearns to leave while other women such as Sally, Minerva, and Rafaela aspire to do so as well but have failed to escape the neighborhood they are succumbed to. This dream of moving away from Mango Street is a common desire between these women, yet their ways of attempting to fulfill their dreams are crushed by …show more content…
Sally is a gorgeous girl that Esperanza’s mom calls “dangerous” (p. 32), and her dad says that she’s so beautiful its “trouble” (p. 32). Sally is Esperanza’s experienced guide to all things glamorous and sexual. Sally’s life at home is troubling because her dad physically abuses her. He beats her when boys look at her and tells her that she isn’t his daughter. Even though she is only in the eighth grade, Sally meets a marshmallow salesman who takes her to a state where they can legally get married. Esperanza says “she says she is in love, but I think she did it to escape” (p. 101). Sally finds a way out of Mango Street with this man who she believes will give her a better life. After they are married, Sally sees that he has control and anger issues. He doesn’t allow her to go outside or talk on the phone with her friends. She claims to be content but in reality she has married a man exactly how her father was and is back to living the way she was at the no-escape Mango …show more content…
84) is Minerva. Minerva is a sad sad girl, so sad “like a house on fire- always something wrong” (p. 84). She is yet another woman who is trapped on Mango Street. Her husband left her and keeps on leaving so she gets sick of it and kicks him out. He comes back and apologizes and Minerva allows him to come back home, only to be beaten “black and blue” (p. 84). Esperanza can clearly see how unhappy she is and that she has lost so much at such an early age. Esperanza “doesn’t know which way she’ll go” (p. 85), there isn’t anything she can
PLS 201- L24
Assignment #1
09/22/13
“For the Ones who cannot out” Esperanza’s name means hope, and her legacy she leaves behind can give the trapped women in her neighborhood faith that they too will be able to leave this place behind. In Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street, Esperanza Cordero realizes that she really can’t leave from Mango Street, a rundown neighborhood in Chicago. In Esperanza’s journey, she yearns to leave while other women such as Sally, Minerva, and Rafaela aspire to do so as well but have failed to escape the neighborhood they are succumbed to. This dream of moving away from Mango Street is a common desire between these women, yet their ways of attempting to fulfill their dreams are crushed by …show more content…
Sally is a gorgeous girl that Esperanza’s mom calls “dangerous” (p. 32), and her dad says that she’s so beautiful its “trouble” (p. 32). Sally is Esperanza’s experienced guide to all things glamorous and sexual. Sally’s life at home is troubling because her dad physically abuses her. He beats her when boys look at her and tells her that she isn’t his daughter. Even though she is only in the eighth grade, Sally meets a marshmallow salesman who takes her to a state where they can legally get married. Esperanza says “she says she is in love, but I think she did it to escape” (p. 101). Sally finds a way out of Mango Street with this man who she believes will give her a better life. After they are married, Sally sees that he has control and anger issues. He doesn’t allow her to go outside or talk on the phone with her friends. She claims to be content but in reality she has married a man exactly how her father was and is back to living the way she was at the no-escape Mango …show more content…
84) is Minerva. Minerva is a sad sad girl, so sad “like a house on fire- always something wrong” (p. 84). She is yet another woman who is trapped on Mango Street. Her husband left her and keeps on leaving so she gets sick of it and kicks him out. He comes back and apologizes and Minerva allows him to come back home, only to be beaten “black and blue” (p. 84). Esperanza can clearly see how unhappy she is and that she has lost so much at such an early age. Esperanza “doesn’t know which way she’ll go” (p. 85), there isn’t anything she can