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In this vignette “Sally” in the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros illustrates the role of women in a Hispanic culture and many difficulties they’re facing just because they’re “women on the mango street”. This passage is significant as it highlights the difficulties of being a women in the Hispanic culture.
As the passage begins, Cisneros jumps directly into Sally’s physical appearance as her beautiness will lead her to many troubles. Sally is a popular girl among the boys at her school her “eyes like Egypt and nylons the color of smoke” and her hair is like “raven feathers”. Through the use of simile comparing Sally to a beautiful figure every girls on Mango street wants to be like, readers can definitely see how physical appearances play a huge role in the Hispanic culture as it foreshadows the consequences of being “pretty”. Furthermore, Cisnero chooses to highlight the strictness in the Hispanic culture, as being “beautiful is trouble” and girls aren’t “supposed to dance”. Men and women do live in a separate world in the Hispanic society, thus reader sees the female’s role in the society as they are powerless, and most females are trapped in their homes by abusive parents.
Esperanza is growing up in a male-dominated society, not mature enough to realize the world in front of her. Esperanza keeps admiring Sally’s beautiness as well as her shoes “ just like yours, like your black ones made out of suede, just like those.” .Cisneros utilizes symbolism to convey the idea of sexuality in the Hispanic culture. Womens are only seen as a social object that men who has more social power over them can play around with, thus readers can see how Esperanza is blinded from being desirable, not knowing the danger around the society she’s living in. Esperanza isn’t mature enough to go out in a world surrounded by oppressive men, as she has faced a terrible experience of getting assaulted and raped later on in the text.
Towards the end of this vignette, Cisneros further highlights the idea of cultural identity, as every women on the Mango street are trapped and will never escape from the reality. The use of rhetorical question to convey both girl's imagination to escape from the Hispanic society, “Do you wish your feet would one day keep walking and take you far away from Mango Street, far away and maybe your feet would stop in front of a house, a nice one with flowers and big windows and steps for you to climb up two by two upstairs to where a room is waiting for you”. This run on sentence helps illustrate how women on the Mango street are struggling in the sense of shame living in the barrio, furthermore these Latinos are only seen as an underclass foreign where they’ve been mistreated just because they’re different.
In the end, the vignette highlights many difficulties Esperanza and Sally are facing, living on the Mango Street. The struggle against many prejudices that stops women on the Mango street from being who they are and lastly their desire to have freedoms. There are many individuals in the world who are stucking in poverty and can’t find their ways out of that situation. Thus, it is essential to note that we’re all humans, with two feets and two arms, we should accept the diversities in our world and compromise in order to live a happy life.
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