The House on Mango Street | Techniques
Although The House on Mango Street contains many characters and stories, they are narrated by the adolescent Esperanza in the form of short, vivid tales. Narrated in the first person ("I"), they give the reader an intimate glimpse of the girl's outlook on the world. Although critics often describe Esperanza as a childlike narrator, Cisneros said in a 1992 interview in Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World:
If you take Mango Street and translate it, it's Spanish. The syntax, the sensibility, the diminutives, the way of looking at inanimate...
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