Hernandez’s poem “Mexican Machista,” she expands on the roles within the Mexican family through a woman’s perception of what being a Mexican man entails.
The House on Mango Street stresses that every member of a Mexican family played a specific role and therefore had their individuality limited, especially for the women. In Sara Rimer’s article, “San Antonio Journal Novelist’s Purple Palette Is Not to Everyone’s Taste”, Cisneros states, “I’m very Mexican, and I’m proud of it, and that is another way of being American,” (Rimer 2). While Esperanza is embarrassed of being a Mexican-American around white Americans, Cisneros is proud to be a Mexican-American girl. One being that Cisneros was also a Mexican-American girl growing up in a Chicago working class neighborhood.Įsperanza is a foil of Cisneros’ beliefs and opinions of her Mexican culture and heritage. The author is much like the main character Esperanza in many different ways. Reedng English Foundations May 27th, 2013 The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a coming of age novel of a young Mexican-American girl developing in a working class Chicago neighborhood.
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