e". Hope is an ironic name for a character whose dreams of being an independent and liberal spirit woman were never accomplished. The House On Mango Street is divided into different aspects of feminism; physical abuse, sexual abuse, domestication, arranged marriages, and one parent families.
             The men in the story feel that its their right to treat the women as animals by physically beating them until they "understand". "The House On Mango Street, is a deceptively readable work which it comes to one slowly as a shock of considerable magnitude: the perfidiousness of people toward girls--how perilous it is for girls growing up: how silently and how predictably, they suffer abuse at the hands of men"(Gagnier, Regenia). Sally, one of Esperanza's good friends is desperate to get married with anyone just to escape the brutal hands of her father. "But Sally doesn't tell about that time he hit her with his hands just like a dog, she said, like if I was and animal . He thinks I'm going to run away like his sisters who made the family ashamed. Just because I am a daughter, and then she doesn't say"(Cisneros, Sandra 92). Sally, who is in the eight grade, gets married. She says that she is happy but it is obvious that she is no better off than she was before. "Sally says she likes being married because now she gets to buy her own things when her husband gives her money. She is happy except sometimes her husband gets angry and once he broke the door where his foot went through, though most days he is okay. Except he won't let her talk on the telephone. And he doesn't let her look out the window. And he doesn&apos
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