The House On Mango Street Character Analysis

Esperanza for almost three years. Everyone in town is expecting for the long table to be set, since three years is three years. To his father's frequent visits to Judge Salas' place, he had this unexpected burst of emotions for Alfredo Salazar, a calm placid and young lawyer is engaged to the judge's sister in law, Julia Salas.Perplexity rises here; to stick to what HE WANTS to do or to what HE NEEDS to do. Is it Esperanza, a fine woman dressed in elegance and self-consciousness and sticking to the principles of society, or to Julia, a not so flashy woman of her age and a free spirited being of her time?

After eight years, finding himself married to Esperanza, but yet seemingly incomplete, he runs to the lake town for an errand as a lawyer.