... , and everyone had to share a bedroom. (4) The house on Mango Street did not live up to Esperanza's standards of her dream house. Likewise as a teenager, Cisneros' family had accomplished their goal of purchasing their own house but, "Cisneros regarded the house as ugly and shabby and nothing like what she imagined a house should be" ("The House on Mango Street" 1). Both females had large families, lived in ... needed answers to myself" (Cisneros, Introduction xxiv). Esperanza's adolescent voice enables Cisneros to regress back to her childhood where the satisfaction of playing was plent...

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