The sense of imprisonment of women in "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:56:52
Category: / Literature / Biographies
Length: 1 pages (297 words)
Category: / Literature / Biographies
Length: 1 pages (297 words)
In "The House on Mango Street", by Sandra Cisneros, Mango Street is part of a lower class, dangerous neighborhood where women feel imprisoned from life, particularly in the characters of Marin, Sally, and Esperanza. The first woman, Marin, an older friend of Esperanza's, is emotionally imprisoned from the joy of being outside to laugh and talk with friends. Marin is not allowed to leave her home because it is her job to watch her cousins. …
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…you remember, but me I never had a house, not even a photograph...only one I dream of" (Cisneros 106). Esperanza has bigger ideas planned for her future than those that Mango Street has to offer her, but has no choice but to stay because of her age and maturity level. Marin, Sally, and Esperanza are all emotionally, physically, and mentally imprisoned by the hardships they, and all women, face living in a slum of Chicago.
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