Friends
In Sandra Cisneros' book based off of her own personal experiences, "The House on Mango Street" it talks about hew life as a child. Esperanza (based off of the author Sandra) lives in a neighborhood on the fictional "Mango St." based in Chicago. Esperanza learns a lot about growing up from her friends.
Cathy was Esperanza's reminder or help to realize that some people can be fake. Cathy is called "Cathy the Queen of Cats" because she owns many cats Cathy owns various ages and types of cats and she keeps them in her house. Cathy was one of Esperanza's first friends, but she wasn't a long lasting one. Cathy was moving away from the neighborhood as her parents said it was getting "bad". Cathy also says that she is a far relative of the queen of France.
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She learns from what Sally does, how she acts and how she is different around people. Sally had a tough home life and is shown in multiple instances in the book. Sally's father is abusive, "protective" in a way. Her father doesn't like her going out in public as she is "too pretty" and he's afraid somebody will take his daughter. Later on when sally is a little bit older (7th grade), she marries a marshmallow salesman she met at the school's bazaar. Esperanza thinks she uses it as a way to escape from her father, but then we figure out in the vignette titled "Linoleum Roses" that her new husband is also abusive. For the same reason as her father was, she wasn't allowed to have friends over, and she wasn't allowed outside. She would look out the windows, her appliances and she looked at the walls and how they would line up with each other, and the linoleum roses on the floor, hence the title of the vignette, "Linoleum Roses". This all shows Esperanza how growing up as a female can come with dangers and risks such as sexual assault and harassment. The dangers are shown in the vignettes "The Monkey Garden"and "Red Clowns". Red Clowns sums up the harassment