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Analysis Of The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

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In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, a young girl narrates her families seemingly perpetual moving. Through detailed imagery she develops a tone which communicates the families’ socio-economic status, care for one another, and vison to one day live in a house. When the narrator moves into her families’ new house on Mango Street, she states, “There is no front yard, only four little elms the city planted by the curb” (Cisneros 552). The four elm trees Cisneros writes about are symbolic of the narrator and her three siblings. The young girls states there is no front yard and the trees did not grown their naturally, concluding that they did not belong there. Similarly, the narrator and her siblings did not belong in the house they
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