Gender Roles in The House on Mango Street Essay

societal development, there has always been the subjugating presence of inequality in and among all nations and cultures. Among all histories of civilization and genres of life, there has almost always been an inequality involving the agency of the genders; it has been an inequality that led often perceived lesser binary, the female, to develop a lack of agency in many cultures, or has prohibited this potential. Although the flame of female agency can be easily ignited by very miniscule acts and…

House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a coming to age book concerning a chicana girl named Esperanza and the Mexican community around her. The book contains many dark moments and themes including criminal activity, rape, death, and abuse. Esperanza realizes many women suffer from abuse in the community. There are a variety of female roles in her life. However, many are trapped in abusive relationships and waiting for others to change their lives. Some are actively trying to change on their…

another. Yet, for young girls and women the home is a place where they learn their limitations in society. Females learn their appropriate place in the outside world by their time spent in the home. In all of the books we read this semester, we saw roles for females become confined as they drew closer to the gates of womanhood. As Thomas Foster states in his novel, Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women’s Writing: Homelessness at Home, “the ideology of separate spheres that…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…