Tuesday, October 9, 2007
The House on Mango Street
"The House on Mango Street" is a year long description of the life of Esperanza. One of the main focuses in this book, is Esperanza's wish to move away from Mango Street and to have her own house. Esperanza is trying to identify herself, and comes to find exactly what she does not want to be identified with. She does not want to become part of Mango Street or like any of the other women living there. She does not want to marry and be under the control of a husband. Rafaela is an example of what Esperanza does not want to become. Rafaela, "gets locked indoors because her husband is afraid she will run away because she is too beautiful to look at."(p.79) Rafaela spends her time looking out the window, which is something that happens frequently by the women on Mango Street. Esperanza refuses to become Mango Street, and continues her push to leave.
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I agree that Esperanza is trying to get as far away from Mango Street as possible, because she obviously does not like what she is seeing and experiencing while in that environment. One of the main issues of Mango Street that Esperanza has a problem with is how women are treated and viewed. Esperanza sees the women around her being stifled and controlled by their husbands. It is like they no longer have their own personal identity. Their only identity now is a wife and maybe a mother. Esperanza is scared of falling into this trap because she wants to have her own identity, created through positive experiences that she has gone through as an individual, not just as a husband's wife.
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