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Place By The Window In Esperanza's The Vignette My Name

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In the vignette My Name, Esperanza is at the beginning of this development. She describes her name, which symbolizes the person that she has to be for her family, or the role that her family has put her in. She explains that she was named after her great grandmother, a woman whose freedom was taken away from her. Therefore, this name is also associated with her and her situation. At one point, when talking about her great grandmother, Esperanza says “She looked out her window her whole life, the way so many women sit with their sadness on an elbow….I don’t want to inherit her place by the window.” The “place by the window” symbolizes a lack of freedom or autonomy, and Esperanza does not want that same feeling. However, she doesn’t feel confident
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