The House On Mango Street Character Analysis

Esperanza is the main character in the book “The House on Mango Street”. She started off as a naive girl that doesn’t know anything about the real world she lives in. As time passes she learns more about herself and the world around her. Another major character in this book is Sally. Sally was born into a harsh family where her father will beats her. Sally was always trapped by her father until one day she marries a man that treats her just like her father but, she doesn’t notices.
Aunt Lupe is one of the minor characters in the book “The House on Mango Street”. She is Esperanza’s aunt and she is ill. Esperanza will read Aunt Lupe her poems and Aunt Lupe will tell her to continue to write poems. Aunt Lupe knows writing can help Esperanza set her free from Mango Street. In addition, another minor character is the nun. The nun showed an attitude toward Esperanza when Esperanza showed the nun where she lived. The attitude the nun showed towards Esperanza remained in Esperanza’s head and as Esperanza grows up her writing showed how she wanted to prove to the nun that
She explains how she finds her sister so childish compared to herself and how her brothers are in a different world once they leave the house. The rising action happens when you start to see changes in Esperanza’s personality. Esperanza starts to care about what she wears and is aware of how her body is changing. The climax or the vignette that is the hardest to forget is when Esperanza and Sally went to the carnival and when Sally left Esperanza, Esperanza got raped. After that vignette, Esperanza changes even more and she notices what she is capable of doing in her future. For example, she meets the three sisters that tell her what she must do in her future. The last vignette shows how much Esperanza matured and how she realized that she is Mango