Women In The House On Mango Street

Through countless stories and the motif of women sitting by windows, Cisneros ratifies how draining it is to be an average woman in Esperanza's community. In The House on Mango Street, women by windows depict women trapped by their families, specifically their husbands, maturing into a disturbing image that portrays the failure to be an individual that makes her own decisions. In the vignette “Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut and Papaya Juice on Tuesdays,” the author tells of a woman who is “too beautiful to look at,” saying, “Rafaela who … wishes there were sweeter drinks, not bitter like an empty room, but sweet sweet like the island, like the dance hall down the street where women much older than her throw green eyes easily like dice and open homes with keys” (Cisneros 80). Rafaela is yearning to be able to leave her home like the women she envies. She compares the bitterness of her fruit drinks to the desolation and seclusion of the house, and wishes the drinks were sweeter, expressing her looking out the window and longing for something more in life, like the fortunate few women in her community have. A character Esperanza knows named Sally has received abuse from her father, and when she gets married, Esperanza says, “She says she is in love, but I think she did it to escape” (Cisneros 101) and, “She sits at home because she is afraid to go outside without his permission” (Cisneros 102). Sally tried to get away from her father’s physical abuse, but in doing so, she is now living the life of a woman by the window, a

In all aspects of life, women are pressured to be someone they are not. They are put in situations that force them to chose a path of life. In “The House on Mango Street”, Esperanza is forced to think about leaving Mango Street in the future, because she is surrounded by women who are pushing her to become an adult.

Most of the women in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros are either unhappy or abused. For example on page 27, Esperanza states Marin “Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life.” This demonstrates how Marin is unhappy because she’s saying how she’s tired of being alone, unhappy and she just wants to move on forward with her life. In the statement Esperanza was talking about Marin which had wanted a nice life and a wanted someone to help her out of her situations.

Esperanza is a shy but a very bright girl. She dreams of the perfect home now, with beautiful flowers in their luscious garden and a room for everyone to live in comfortably all because of the unsatisfied face the nun made that one afternoon--when she moves to the house of Mango Street. She thinks it’s going to be a “grand house on a hill that will have a bedroom for everyone and at least three washrooms so when they took a bath they would not have to tell everybody.” (Cinceros 4) Reality is so different for her when her dream is shot down in a heartbeat when she

The House On Mango Street Essay According to the article, Among Hispanics, Immigrants Are More Likely to be Stay-at-Home Moms and to Believe That’s Best for Kids, by Gretchen Livingston, “38% of Hispanic moms living with their children younger than 18 are not working outside the home” This actuality is closely portrayed within the novel, The House On Mango Street. Author Sandra Cisneros takes the reader along to the harsh reality a young Latina girl by the name of Esperanza is faced with. Overarching messages of patriarchy flood the book and often plague the young protagonist's mind, causing her to question the inevitable life that awaits her and how gender roles impact her sense of identity.

Each example becomes increasingly more severe and related to Esperanza, showing the escalating fear of being held back by her gender. Esperanza, telling of her great-grandmother, shows initial fear of being held back by the gender norms on Mango Street. Esperanza describes her great-grandmother’s

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a thought-provoking story of a girl who feels trapped in her life, like a balloon tied to an anchor just waiting to break free. The main character, Esperanza is a teen who is trying to find where she belongs in the world. By observing how other people lead their lives, she reflects on how she wants to lead her own. One specific group of people she observes are women. Some of them are in abusive relationships, or waiting for someone to take them away.

Esperanza, a strong- willed girl who dreams big despite her surroundings and restrictions, is the main character in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Esperanza represents the females of her poor and impoverished neighborhood who wish to change and better themselves. She desires both sexuality and autonomy of marriage, hoping to break the typical life cycle of woman in her family and neighborhood. Throughout the novel, she goes through many different changes in search of identity and maturity, seeking self-reliance and interdependence, through insecure ideas such as owning her own house, instead of seeking comfort and in one’s self. Esperanza matures as she begins to see the difference. She evolves from an insecure girl to a

Self-exploration is hindered in this book and my life. I can very much identify with Esperanza perspectives on societal issues that Latin women face. A society dominated by men and women relying on them, whether it is a father, spouse or friend. Men are considered the strong reasonable as where women are weak and emotional, in turn women need men for protection. A young girl may have two story paths, one where she relies on the protection of her father while she watches her mother cater to him or two, witnesses the struggles of a single young woman and absence for a father. This book describes marriage as priority for every girl or else how could she survive; appearances and physical features are highly valued traits. This attitude is not one that Esperanza agrees with, nor do I. For example, Marin she is the girl standing on the street just “waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life.” This character implies that she does not dream of actively setting life goals for herself and working to earn them, instead she will wait until a man makes it happen for her. The ideology behind this thought being that as a woman she must thrive to be as attractive as possible to heighten her chances of marriage and acquire

In the book The House on Mango Street, author Sandra Cisneros presents a series of vignettes that involve a young girl, named Esperanza, growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza Cordero is searching for a release from the low expectations and restrictions that Latino society often imposes on its young women. Cisneros draws on her own background to supply the reader with accurate views of Latino society today. In particular, Cisneros provides the chapters “Boys and Girls” and “Beautiful and Cruel” to portray Esperanza’s stages of growth from a questioning and curious girl to an independent woman. Altogether, “Boys and Girls” is not like “Beautiful and Cruel” because Cisneros reveals two different maturity levels in Esperanza;

The theme of a patriarchal society where beauty is a weakness and having too much of it only means darkness is very prominent in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street. Esperanza, the protagonist of the numerous vignettes, highlights how this affects the young women on Mango Street.

Lots of things can change when era changes except gender roles but after read this story, gender roles are changing distinctly than others. Even though it has changed a lot now, woman still has difficulty with when they get a job so we must strive until the equality of man and woman is evenly distributed. Esperanza make effort to improve her life and cultivate own self but not make effort to gender equality. She has interest in gender role but not that much so she think about it but not to act. From this essay, I have gave examples of how people might react to the idea about gender roles. However, we need to realize that women should take action for themselves instead of following

Sandra cisneros novel, The house on mango street, is describing the problems latino face in society. A society that is mostly dominated by men, and a society that is juges women on what they look like, instead of judging them on what's inside. Cisneros wants us to see the daily complications a latina woman must face in order to be treated like everyone else. The novel also talks about how females should be loyal to their husband. And love is not something they should rely heavily on.

Visualize a time period where women are treated as objects and you are in severe poverty. You constantly lose friends and sometimes you get desperate enough to pay for them. Esperanza has to cope with all of this as she struggles to find her identity in a tough world. In the “House on Mango Street” the author illustrates that Esperanza can’t accept her identity because of her gender and economic status.

In order to succeed in life people have to strive for what they truly want to accomplish in their future. Some people might struggle to accomplish their goals because of their financial status or surroundings. But what actually takes people far to succeed in life is their hard work and to never give up their dreams. Esperanza Cordero, a girl who dreams big, is the main character on The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, who represents the females of her poor neighborhood who desire to improve and change themselves despite their surroundings and restrictions while she struggles to confront her neighborhood’s poverty. Because of her Mexican heritage, Esperanza hopes to change the typical role of women in her family and neighborhood. Throughout the book, Esperanza goes through several changes to seek her identity, maturity and independence. Throughout the novel Esperanza evolves from an immature, innocent girl to a mature young lady because of the experiences of having to deal with abuse, poverty and wanting to be different.