As Cisneros grew older, these phantasies transformed intensely into daydreams of a young girl living a life that mirrored her own experiences. However, as an adult, Cisneros continues to suppress these phantasies due to shame. Although these phantasies are figments of Cisneros' imagination and temporarily relieve her suppression, "[she is] ashamed of [her] phantasies" because it is inappropriate for a woman of her age to continue playing (4). In order to cope with this suppression, Cisneros needed an outlet to discharge of her emotions in a healthy manner. According to Freud, "If a person who is at loggerheads with reality possesses an artistic gift he can transform his phantasies into artistic creations instead of into symptoms" (Lectures 56). For Cisneros this artistic gift was writing. By using writing as her outlet, Cisneros was not only able to cope with her suppression, but she was also able to sublimate inappropriate wishful impulses/phantasies into a socially acceptable form.
Cisneros' search for her literary identity caused her phantasies to give birth to Esperanza. While at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Cisneros felt out of place and did not like the work of her peers so she resorted to developing her own style. She wanted to write about something she knew that no one else could write about. Hence, in an interview with Martha Satz, Cisneros admits "I was going through some traumatic experiences at the time, I chose to write about my past-my childhood experiences, my mother, and especially the women in the community" (3). These traumatic experiences had determined her vocation as a writer because "a strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to the childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfillment in the creative work. The work itself exhibits elements of the recent provoking occasion as well as of the old memory" (Freud, Day-Dreaming 151).
The book I read was The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. ... It is about a girl named Esperanza who moves into a new house on Mango Street. ... The house on Mango Street is not what Esperanza thought they would get. ... She is kind of upset because the house on Mango Street is not what she expected. ... The house on Mango Street was not what she wanted, but is what she could get. ...
The House On Mango Street Summary This book is about young Latino girl named Esperanza who is growing up in a poor neighborhood in Chicago. ... She then visits a fortune teller, which only helped her realize that she is still ashamed of living on Mango Street. ... Esperanza ended up getting molested because she was all alone. ... By the end of the story, Esperanza finally accepts Mango Street as a part of her. She still desired to have a new house so that she can be on her own, and pursue her dream of writing. ...
The book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros takes place on a run down street in Chicago called Mango Street. ... Esperanza tells herself that she will get out of Mango Street and own her own house that she can be proud to go home to. ... Growing up on Mango Street, Esperanza sees men and marriage trap many women, including her good friend Sally. ... Mamacita and her family moved into an apartment on Mango Street. ... She decides that she wants to get a good education, then a job and move out of Mango Street and buy a house to be proud of....
In The House on Mango Street, a young girl names Esparanza is self-conscious about her home, her appearance, and her name. ... The House On Mango Street is a novel which traces Esperanza Cordero's childhood through a series of stories about her family, neighborhood, and secret dreams. ... The novel begins when the Cordero family moves into a new house on Mango Street. ... At the end of the story, Esperanza admits that she will never escape Mango Street. ... Esperanza finally finds her identity and plans her life so she that can leave Mango Street. ...
Esperanza had no place; she was alone even in her own new home on Mango Street. But, unlike her neighbors and family, Esperanza was ready to break away from the traditional beliefs and customs of Mango Street. ... This ugliness was one of the center points of The House on Mango Street. ... With experiences gathered from her life, Esperanza began to feel out of place on mango Street. ... Mango Street was a place of sexism, and Esperanza wanted to break that barrier and gain her rights to do whatever a boy could. ...
Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street follows the story of a young girl named Esperanza and her life experiences growing up on Mango Street, the all-Hispanic community at which people of opulence look down upon and grimace. Esperanza has always had an ideal image and dream of what living in a house should be like, and when her life on Mango Street turns out to be nothing like she expected, she struggles to make a home out of the place and tries to figure out her identity while doing so. ... "Down, down Mango Street we go. ... One particular guy, Sire, watches Esperanza walk past...
The House on Mango Street is a short novel written by a Latina author known as Sandra Cisneros. ... If I were to choose specific people, they would have to be most of the men and all of the boys that she encountered in the time she lived on Mango Street. ... The novel starts off as a girl by the name of Esperanza explaining her background before she ended up on Mango Street with her family. ... Esperanza didn't like the house she was living in and these feelings began when a nun acted stunned and shocked when Esperanza pointed to the house that she lived in. ... Her was born here, but ...
Beginning with herself, Esperanza hates her name. ... Prejudice is shown toward Esperanza when Cathy is mentioned. ... Many women on Mango Street, however, are trapped in their own homes. ... Esperanza hasn't necessarily been hanging out with the best crowd. ... The House of Mango Street constantly shows passages for us to infer that Esperanzas life is an unhappy one, and it's because of the people who surround her. ...
When she moves to the house of Mango Street, reality is so different than the dream. ... She did not want to abandon where she came from, but she knew she wanted to be free of everything that life on Mango Street brought. ... She is committed to her roots on Mango Street. ... Esperanza was embarrassed when she pointed to her house there. ... Hurt by the sister superior as she points to a row of ugly houses reminding Esperanza of the sin of being poor. ...
