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Women In The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

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In her novel The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros illustrates the hardships women face, but also explores their power to overcome them through the female role models in Esperanza’s life. The House on Mango Street is set in the 1960’s in Chicago. In this time in history women were suppressed and did not have as equal treatment as they do today. Women were seen as just the people who take care of the children but in this novel Esperanza suggests that she wants to be more than that and be something important in her life.

In the novel Cisneros illustrates events in the story that show women facing hardships. In the 1960’s there were many stereotypes on women and in this novel especially many Mexican stereotypes for women. In the vignette
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