e store. Esperanza feels ashamed andunprivileged with her home. Her family, on the other hand, tries to escape Mango Streetas often as possible and visit rich homes nearby, the homes that they see in their dreams.Esperanza has become more ashamed of her home because of the way the nun thatwalked by one day reacted to her house, and by the way everyone around her wants tomove away. She does not enjoy looking at what she cannot have. All she can do is watchher father tell stories of the house they will have one day as he holds a lottery ticketbetween his fingers.Finally, many of Esperanza’s family have been trapped in places they do notbelong or want to be in. Esperanza’s mother had a chance to get out. Instead, shedropped out of school. Esperanza’s mother did this because she was ashamed of herself.All she wanted were material things. Her mother was very intelligent when she leftschool. Esperanza, along with her great-grandmother, was born in the Chinese year of thehorse. Being born female in this year brings bad luck. This surely gave bad luck to hergreat-grandmother who sat by the window and dreamt her whole life. This sounds similarto the way that Esperanza is living. She has dreamt to get out of Mango Street. However,she does not seem to try hard enough in school. All she cares about in school is to belong.She has no long hours of studying like Alicia. Esperanza wants to untie the anchor underher, but how will she do this if she has no brains or money to cut the rope? Esperanzawants to step away from the footsteps of her family, but doing so will be very hard. Thosefootsteps have been dug very deep by many generations of Esperanza’s family.In conclusion, Esperanza is trapped with little hope of leaving. By “Gil’sFurniture Bought & Sold,” Esperanza’s family desperate to leave, and the previousfootsteps created by Esperanza’s family members, Esperanza may just sit by the windowdre...
