Sandra Cisneros Only Daughter

In her essay “Only Daughter” which appears in The Norton Mix, Sandra Cisneros explains how her culture makes it difficult for her father to take her dreams of prospering in college serious. Cisneros grew up being the only girl in a Mexican family of six brothers. It is common for Hispanic women to go to college simply to find a husband. In the fifth grade, she shares her plan to attend a university with her father and believes the conversation goes well. After receiving a master degree her father sees it as a misused education because Cisneros does not find a husband. Cisneros’ view of college differs from her fathers in that she believes college is for becoming better off financially, proving Mexican women can become more than just a wife, and making her loved ones proud of who she has become. Students continue their education by attending college in hopes that one day they will accumulate quite a bit of money. Cisneros ask the question, “Why would anyone go to college and then choose to be poor” (326). Nobody goes through years of college just to make the decision to be poor by the end of all of it. Getting a well-paying job and being able to afford a comfortable living is just about everyone’s …show more content…
She attends a university and instead of settling for a bachelor’s degree, she pushes for more receiving a master’s degree in English. Cisneros does not stop there though, she later receives “a guest professorship at the University of California, Berkeley” (327). She also attends her “second National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship” (327) along with selling her book to “a major New York Times publishing house” (327). These many achievements come to show that women of the Hispanic culture can become so much more rather than just a wife. Society makes it seem silly for a woman to prosper without a husband in her life but Cisneros’ determination prove the stereotype

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Only Daughter Sandra Cisneros Analysis

Only Daughter By Sandra Cisneros Analysis