Question

How do race and gender come into conflict in the house on mango street? Does triumph as the more important concern, or both issues receive equal?

Answer 1

Esperanza realizes that men and women live in “separate worlds,” and that women are nearly powerless in her society. There is a constant conflict between being a sexual being and keeping one’s freedom, as most of the book’s female characters are trapped both by their abusive husbands and needy children. Gender is a HUGE conflict in most of her vignettes in house on mango street