What Does Red Clowns Mean
`The Betrayal of a “Friend”
In Sandra Cisneros’ vignette “Red Clowns”, the narrator revolutionizes from innocent, naive, and trusting, to experienced, endangered, and betrayed when she is abandoned at the carnival.
The narrator in the beginning of the story was implied to be somewhat unaware of what the real world is actually like. She was innocent when she met Sally and was told many false things about love and boys that the narrator actually believed as said in this quote “ The way they said it, the way it’s supposed to be, all the storybooks and movies”(Cisneros 1). This quote proves that she had no knowledge or was too young to understand of what really happens in this world. Later on she found out that her friend Sally lied to her about …show more content…
The narrator waited and waited but sally never came. The narrator put all her trust on Sally. “I waited such a long time. I waited by the red clowns, just like you said, but you never came, you never came for me”(Cisneros 1). This quote proves that the narrator was left in dangerous circumstances because she was left alone. The narrator trusted sally to protecter when she was afraid. If you are left alone in a carnival especially if it is by men who have been drinking you are bound to have trouble. The narrator was blinded by sally and wanting to be like her that she did not realize she was in trouble from the very beginning. If the narrator had noticed she was endangered, she would've just went home.The narrator seems to always be depending on someone to look after her. At first Sally leaves the narrator alone in a dark place next to drunk strangers telling her she will be fine. Soon after the narrator experiences the horrible event of getting raped in her desperation the narrator tries yelling her help but can not fight back and has nothing to do but cry. ”Sally, you lied, you lied. He wouldn’t let me go”(Cisneros 6). This shows Sally lied when she said the narrator was going to be fine when she was told to stay by the tilt a whirl. In the narrator's eyes she feels betrayed and used by Sally and her image of a perfect world of fairy tales soon tumbles down. The lesson that the narrator learns is do
In Sandra Cisneros’ vignette “Red Clowns”, the narrator revolutionizes from innocent, naive, and trusting, to experienced, endangered, and betrayed when she is abandoned at the carnival.
The narrator in the beginning of the story was implied to be somewhat unaware of what the real world is actually like. She was innocent when she met Sally and was told many false things about love and boys that the narrator actually believed as said in this quote “ The way they said it, the way it’s supposed to be, all the storybooks and movies”(Cisneros 1). This quote proves that she had no knowledge or was too young to understand of what really happens in this world. Later on she found out that her friend Sally lied to her about …show more content…
The narrator waited and waited but sally never came. The narrator put all her trust on Sally. “I waited such a long time. I waited by the red clowns, just like you said, but you never came, you never came for me”(Cisneros 1). This quote proves that the narrator was left in dangerous circumstances because she was left alone. The narrator trusted sally to protecter when she was afraid. If you are left alone in a carnival especially if it is by men who have been drinking you are bound to have trouble. The narrator was blinded by sally and wanting to be like her that she did not realize she was in trouble from the very beginning. If the narrator had noticed she was endangered, she would've just went home.The narrator seems to always be depending on someone to look after her. At first Sally leaves the narrator alone in a dark place next to drunk strangers telling her she will be fine. Soon after the narrator experiences the horrible event of getting raped in her desperation the narrator tries yelling her help but can not fight back and has nothing to do but cry. ”Sally, you lied, you lied. He wouldn’t let me go”(Cisneros 6). This shows Sally lied when she said the narrator was going to be fine when she was told to stay by the tilt a whirl. In the narrator's eyes she feels betrayed and used by Sally and her image of a perfect world of fairy tales soon tumbles down. The lesson that the narrator learns is do