Gender differences HoM.

In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros talks about a teenage girl named Esperanza. Esperanza deals with her life with her house full of family, friends, and her house. In the book there are some vignettes that shows how Cisneros views how parents/guardians treat girls and boys differently. In some certain standards, it depends on the situation whether or not to treat boys and girls the same or differently.
One example in the book from the vignette named Sally is

“Her father says to be this beautiful is trouble [...]  She can’t go out. Sally I mean”.(81)  “[...] and nobody could call that crazy.”(83).

Cisneros shows how families might treat how boys and girls differently. Some families would treat girls and boys the same but some might treat them differently. It seems to me that she implies that it depends on the child and the parent/guardian itself. This quote talks about how her father wouldn’t give her as much freedom because her father thinks that she is pretty and because of that more guys would be attracted to her and she would be expected to do stuff that she was not allowed to at a young age.

Another example is how girls are not given much freedom because they are expected to be a “mom figure”

    “Since she comes right after me, she is my responsibility.” (8)

Esperanza is expected to take care of her little sister, Nenny. Her family expects her to take care of her little sister and this shows how Esperanza is expected to be the “mom figure” because she has a little sister that she has to take care of and look after. Cisneros believes that parents/guardians needs girls that are responsible to be a “mom figure” so that the younger sibling will have a guidance to what is lady like or not. She also implies that if something happens to the mother then the oldest female siblings will have to take responsibility and take over the mom’s job in order to keep the house normal and keep it the way the family rule is.