flaunt her money or her house. Because she will remember herself, as a child always wanting a nice house, and to live in a nice neighborhood where the sky isn't so gray, and the clouds are so dark, and the grass isn't so yellow, and the houses are so shabby and uninviting. To think that she'll have bums in her house, in the attic. It's really nice, you don't know about to many people with bums living in their attics.Chapter 35-Beautiful & Cruel"I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate."I think Esperanza is figuring out who she is and what she wants to be. She is finding her identity, and is searching for a way to express it. She doesn't care about anyones expectations for her, except her own. And in one part of the chapter she says: "but I have decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain." Like so many others they have done that. They have waited for a man to whisk them away to find happiness, but all they find is slavery. They are servants to men. They cook for them. They do their laundry. Yet they are sent to their rooms where they stay until they need them once more again to do something for them. Esperanza has started her own quiet war which is to challenge society.Chapter 36-A Smart Cookie"I was a smart cookie then."This is a good lesson for Esperanza. Because she is telling her not to just to depend on a man. She should stay in school and work hard and make her own living. Mama also warns Esperanza about shame. It's a bad thing. Even Esperanza knows this, because she feels a lot of it about her house, and her neighborhood. Esperanza's mom knows how there are low expectations for their sex, race, and class and she doesn't want Esperanza to feel them, so she does tell her about why she quit school, because she didnt' have nice clothes. Chapter 37-What Sally Said"Just because I'm a daughter, and then she doesn't...
