The House On Mango Street Cisneros Analysis

The result of his transformation is achieved through the purging of his ethnic roots by dissociating within the domestic sphere. Rodriquez mourns the loss of his relationship with his family, and community, “I remember what was so grievously lost to define what was necessarily gained, “but reaffirms his newfound growth under Western education and the immersion into the public domain. The moment English was introduced in his home marks a shift of his familial dynamic (6). The mastery of the English language symbolizes Rodriquez’s departure from his roots, which in effect enriches his social esteem.
Cisneros highlights the fluidity between Private and public domains. She conveys the transformative properties of spaces to highlight the constant
He professes that in order to attain social recognition he must give up his association with his private sphere. He believes working-class literature to be unrealistic and urges others to obtain a public voice through academia. The public voice is irrelevant to the working class. For example, Rodriquez states, “They came and left in a single old truck. Anonymous men. They were never introduced to the other men at the site” (134). Spanish is not a public language that encompasses a global scale for recognition and associates the Spanish language within the realm of the domestic sphere in relation to intimacy. The education he attains through his immersion into academia and the loss of his relationship to his private domain illuminates a stark distinction that inhibits hybridization. Thus, education manifests mimicry rather than freedom of thought and creativity, for instance, the very first facts they dispensed, I grasped with awe. Any book they told me to read, I read -- then waited for them to tell me which books I enjoyed. Their every casual opinion I came to adopt and to trumpet when I returned home” (49). Rodriquez perceives education as an attainment of knowledge, rather than a fluid and ever-changing construct/force for progressive transformations. He fears his own creativity, which perpetuated, "sentences