Feminism In The House On Mango Street

In Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street women occupy a major role, as they struggle to gain any sort of power. Most of the characters in the story are females because I feel Sandra Cisneros is trying to empower the feminist role, she uses Esperanza as a story guideline and how she found her feminist capabilities. "But my mother's hair, my mother's hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls all day, sweet to put your nose into when she is holding you, holding you and you feel safe, is the warm smell of bread before you bake it, is the smell when she makes room for you on her side of the bed still warm with her skin, and you sleep near her, the rain outside falling and Papa snoring" (Cisneros 2). In this quote Esperanza realizes that sense her mother is beautiful she …show more content…
"And then his girlfriend came. Lois I heard him call her. She is tiny and pretty and smells like baby's skin. […] She's got big girl hands, and her bones are long like ladies' bones, and she wears makeup too. But she doesn't know how to tie her shoes. I do" (Cisneros 28). In the quote Esperanza realizes good looks isn't everything as she compares her self to Lois she realizes just because Lois is prettier it doesn't make her more feminine and just because Esperanza is smarter it doesn't make her any less feminine they are equal just on different ways. "In the movies there is always one with red red lips who is beautiful and cruel. She is the one who drives the men crazy and laughs them all away. Her power is her own. She will not give it away" (Cisneros 35). Esperanza's thinks there is only one way to live life be beautiful because that's how all the women around her act but none of them have enough self strength to tell the men what there doing is wrong a example of this is Sally and her

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