Rafaela, the woman who won’t step out of the house because her husband locks her up as he is insecure about her beauty. Specifically, Mamacita, an elderly woman who refuses to go out of the house due to a lack of her English speaking skills.Īlicia is a hardworking girl who has high aspirations to leave this neighborhood and get a better job so have to study in the morning but her father makes her do the chores. Meanwhile, she takes to poetry to find expression of her feelings and starts explaining the nature of her family members especially Nenny, her younger sister, who imitates her and her neighboring friends with whom she plays such as Lucy and Rachel. Her dream is about a wooden, white, and big house with a good yard and trees, while this one is suffocating for her. Esperanza, therefore, does not express her penchant for this house. At school, she was made fun of because of her poverty and frustrated because people couldn’t pronounce her name properly.ĭespite being a good house, this house has not been better than the previous ones. According to her parents, it is just a primary abode for them. The house in this street is the last one on the list of the rented houses though it is not yet as the promised one as they used to think. The reason is that they have been living from one apartment to another apartment as they did not have their own home.
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The girl gives a full account of her how they used to live before moving into this house. She states that she has been living with her three brothers and sisters, and parents where she experiences a sense of inferiority on account of their shabby apartment. Living in the poor neighborhood in the apartment has had adverse impacts on her young mind. It’s a coming-of-age novel including Esperanza’s zeal to leave the neighborhood and lead a better life. However, despite the impending travels and stories she will create and tell, Mango Street will never leave her.The story of the novel comprises a year in the life of a young girl named Esperanza Cordero who belongs to the Chicana community. After the three sisters advise her to remember her family and remember where she came from, Esperanza realizes that she will leave Mango Street. Rafaela and Ruthie passively instruct Esperanza on how not to marry too young, while her own mother expresses her deep wishes and desires for her to live a better life.Īs Esperanza meets people, tries to fit in, feels like an ugly duckling, and craves the touch of a man, she realizes that the neighborhood she hates and the house of which she is ashamed is not terrible. Elenita, the fortune teller, informs Esperanza that she desires a large house and has many wishes to fulfill. Marin, the girlfriend of Louie, tells her about makeup and nylons, before she is sent away because of bad behavior. Esperanza is also friends with a girl named Alicia, who is terrified of the rats in her apartment, and later shares her poetry with Esperanza.Įsperanza also discovers boys through several women and men who live on the street. Esperanza and Nenny become friends with two sisters named Lucy and Rachel (from Texas), with whom they ride bikes and have many adventures.
Sally later becomes a loose woman, lies to Esperanza, and moves away to get married before the end of eighth grade. She meets Sally, a girl with painted makeup like the Egyptian Queens, who comes from a strict religious family who beats her.
She meets Cathy, a wealthier girl who makes Esperanza feels negatively about her home and moves away when the neighborhood gets bad.
In small vignettes, Esperanza tells the tales of all the people and experiences she has with her little sister, Nenny. Although her family has not always lived there, it is perhaps the most important place she has lived, for it represents her heritage and upbringing. Esperanza Cordero recollects her life living on Mango Street and all the people she meets while there.
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