Women In The House On The Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

In the novella, The House on the Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, we see a young teenager who lives in Chicago that goes through experiences and challenges from friends,family, and neighbors that changes her into a young powerful woman. As a independent woman, Esperanza is greatly shaped by challenges that she faced from her peers.

Throughout the novella, Esperanza talks about her experiences she faced to become a young powerful woman. For example, in the vignette “Red Clowns”, Esperanza and Sally went to a carnival and Esperanza got sexually assaulted by clowns and the clowns called her names like “Spanish girl” and told her “ I love you” (Cisneros 90). This is one of the many challenges she experiences as she is growing up. From this vignette she

In addition, there is another vignette called “The First Job” that talks about another experience that Esperanza faced as growing up. In this vignette, Aunt Lola finds Esperanza a job at the Pan Photo Finishers on North Broadway. Her duty was to look at a picture and look for the same one on the negative strip. She thought that overall it is an easy job that overall it was an easy job, but she she was scared to eat in the lunchroom with all the men and woman. When break time arrived, she met a man who told “ It's my birthday” and he would like Esperanza to give him “ birthday kiss” (Cisneros 55). She thought it was an old man and would give him a kiss on the check, but instead he grabs her face kissing her hard on the mouth. This one the toughest experience she had faced as growing up. Because of this challenge, Esperanza might not want to come back to work and if she does, how will she face him? Finally, in the vignette “The Family of Little Feet”, it talks about Rachel, Lucy, and Esperanza go through an experience of trying high heels for the first time. They got the heels from the family of little feet. They