... women form relationships with (other than the abuse), is that the women always return to the abusive situation as if there were no other option. This is the case in the situation of Minerva who is another of Esperanza's friends. Her husband beats her and after she leaves the house he always apologizes. Upon her return she is beaten again the same as she always was before (p85 ... education or a house in a decent neighborhood. Women are unsuccessful at this probably even more so because they are in a social and ethnic cycle that is hard to break out of once you get into the network Class...

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... and temptation; hero suffers a wound; hero descends into darkness and that they are not the same after emerging from the darkness of his descent. "The hero's way is beset with dangers, loneliness, and temptation." In the House on Mango Street, it is perhaps Esperanza's imaginative intelligence that makes her question the traditional path to womanhood She feels that courtship and early marriage will eventually lead to ... , before her granddaughter came to live with her, she (probably) lived alone. Even though Sylvie, the granddaughters mother, may have lived with her, there was no love b...

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