House On Mango Street Essay

The Loss of Innocence on Mango Street Often in literature, authors create plot by writing about characters maturing throughout the story.One work that explores childhood to adulthood is The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.

Sandra Cisneros is concerned with different aspects of life connecting to race, class, and genders, in House on Mango Street.

Women expect to wait for the men to dominate their lives into a fairy tale of happily ever after.

The house symbolizes many different things, in my opinion the house represents everything that is wrong in Esperanza's life.

But yet it also represents some where inside the big place called the "world", that she can feel safe and secure.

They want their lives to become a fairy tale, and so women turn to depend solely on a man to save them in their lives, as how traditionally and in modern fairytales both depict for this to happen.

The painting “Diego and I”(Mexican Painting) shows the dominance over the woman over a man’s eye.

Her house doesn't represent her identity, but the way she was brought up.

Even though they are good people they have had bad luck this is stated in the book as " my luck is unlucky" therefore nothing ever seems to go right and nothing ever changes.

Her house represents her social standing in the community, a good example of this is when the nuns walk by and see Esperanza house, and say, "you live there!

" A benefit to where and what her house appears to be is that she feels safe and secure, locked out from the outside world. She can't leave because of poverty, and her race.