Women In The House On Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros

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In the novel, The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros describes the obstacles that Latino women face in a society that treats them as second class citizens. A society that is dominated by men, and a society that values women for their physical description and not for their noetic proficiencies. In her Novel Cisneros opens the reader to the obstacles that Latino women must face everyday in order to be treated fairly.
In the Book women are looked upon as objects by men. The girls in the novel grow up with the mentality that looks and appearance are the most paramount things to a woman. For example, “ Her designation is Marin or Maris or something like that, and she wears dark nylons all the time and lots of makeup she gets liberate from selling Avon. She can't emerge – gotta baby-sit with Louie's sisters – but she stands in the doorway a lot, all the time singing” (10.2). Cisneros additionally shows how Latino women are expected to be loyal to their spouses, and that …show more content…

She describes women who are prisoners in their own homes, who look out the window their whole lives. Sally is a good example. Sally, who is been kept inside her whole life, gets espoused afore eighth grade. She gets espoused to get away from all the troubles she has with her father. "She verbally expresses, she's in love but I cerebrate she did it to elude," verbalizes Esperanza. Sally withal has a home and things of her own now. Her husband, however, does not let her verbalize on the phone, visit with friends or look out the window. Her days are spent alone visually examining all the things that they own. " The Towels and toaster, and alarm clock and drapes." Esperanza realizes that albeit Sally now has all the material things a husband can provide, her life is not worth very much because she is trapped in a room with nothing to do, except visually examine the things that she

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