For instance, Sally’s father says her daughter’s beauty is “trouble” (35). Sally’s parents and Esperanza acknowledge the dangerous nature of her beauty. Sally is significant because she represents Esperanza’s aspired achievements.
Sally is beautiful to the extent that it is harmful to herself and those close to her. Even though Esperanza endures sexual abuses, Cisneros expresses optimism to the degree that “The House on Mango Street” is not a novel about sexual assault. One significant scene is Esperanza’s expression of the hatred for her name when she says, “in Spanish it means too many letters” (41). Major themes of this novel include the struggle for identity, sexuality versus independence, the influence of language, social class, gender, familial relationships, and friendship. Lastly, Nenny, Esperanza younger sister, represents responsibility for the protagonist. Sally is the person Esperanza adores and seeks to make a friend out of. Esperanza is the center of the novel and the narrator, which shows her significance. The protagonist, Esperanza, shifts to a poor, Latino community with her family. The setting of the novel is Mango Street (Cisneros 19). Cisneros is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico and makes her living by her pen.Sandra Cisneros “The House on Mango Street” is a compilation of essays that are not entirely developed poems or narratives. Her most recent book, Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo, a story in English and Spanish, will be published in September 2021. Cisneros is the author of two novels, The House on Mango Street and Caramelo a collection of short stories, Woman Hollering Creek two books of poetry, My Wicked Wicked Ways and Loose Woman a children’s book, Hairs/Pelitos a selected anthology of her own work, Vintage Cisneros with Ester Hernández, Have You Seen Marie?, a fable for adults A House of My Own, a memoir and Puro Amor, a bilingual story that she also illustrated.
Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, she is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Medal of the Arts, the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954.
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