The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

Aspiring the Muliebrous Women are good for absolutely nothing besides staying home and making sandwiches. They should never be let out of the house, and they should only do what pleases their husbands. Obviously, this is not true in any which way or form. However, Sandra Cisneros, the author of "The House on Mango Street", realized the negligence of Latino American society in Chicago. Sandra grew up in this undesirable setting, and took it to heart. Later in life, she wrote a book about her true feelings on the matter. In her story, the roles of women are obscured. They are treated like disposable baubles. To portray her tale, Sandra created the character, Esperanza. Esperanza represents Sandra when she was in her teenage years, and like Sandra, Esperanza will not stand for the senseless treatment of women. In Latino Chicago, the women were left in the house with house with only housework to do. If a wife disobeyed her husband's wishes, she was very likely to be beaten. The men of the community ruled as if they were brutal dictators. Esperanza describes life being stuck at home. "[Sally] is getting old from leaning out the window so much, she gets locked indoors because her husband is afraid she will run away. She is too beautiful to look at" (Cisneros, 79). This is one way Sandra shows how horrible life was

In order to demonstrate her views on the matter, the author uses Esperanza's experience at the dinner table one day with her family. "[Esperanza] is the one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate" (Cisneros, 89). Since Esperanza is a representation of Sandra Cisneros herself, Sandra used Esperanza as the main character kind of as a messenger to depict a morally correct mindset. This mindset is that no woman should be treated like a slave of the household or a slave of anything for that