In The House On Mango Street, Esperanza describes her personal experiences through which you are able to see what kind of person she is, her views on life, how she views herself, as well as how her poverty affects her view of life, her future, and her place in the world. These views show different ideas of Esperanza's identity as it develops and changes more and more throughout The House on Mango Street. Esperanza's identity is all-around. Her shyness is shown when she is around people who are new to her. This is most likely due to the fear these people create. For example, in the chapters "The First Job" and "A Rice Sandwich" Esperanza is too shy to eat with her other co-workers and peers, as shown in the following quote from "The First Job": "When lunch time came I was scared to eat alone in the company lunchroom". Another main feature in Esperanza's personality is the trust she has in others. This is one of Esperanza's weaknesses as a person because it allows her to be gullible and vulnerable.
             Eventually the short stories inside this story will show you, that she wants to leave and then she finds out she is supposed to leave, but also discovers, that she must come back to free the women of Mango Street from the grasp of male domination. If Esperanza does not come back for the women, she will know that she had the chance to save these poor women from poverty and captivity, but she would have failed to do her duty as part of Mango Street. She will always be part of Mango Street and as she was telling us this story she was in turn freeing those women by telling them through story that they are trapped by male domination. So Esperanza, no matter how much she wanted to leave Mango Street, was forced by a promise she made to the three sisters, that she would eventually come back to free the women from their husbands who hold them captive. So instead of waiting for the man to come and give them their fairy tale life, then they should l
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