The vignettes from The House on Mango Street that personally affected me the most was “What Sally Said” and “Linoleum Roses.” Unlike Esperanza, who doesn’t have external problems for instance she has more loving/stable family. However, Sally in my opinion is less fortunate in that aspect. As seen in “What Sally Said” (Cisneros) she gets physically abuse by her father. “But Sally doesn’t tell about that time he hit her with his hands just like a dog, she said, like if I was an animal” (Cisneros.) In “Linoleum Roses” (Cisneros) we see that she is married at a young age; however its also revealed that she did it just to escape the abusive father. Sally even after her marriage is not save. Her husband constantly keeps her in watch and doesn’t let her go out. “She is happy, except sometimes her husband gets angry and once he broke the door where his foot went through, though most days he is okay. Except he won’t let her talk on the telephone. And he doesn’t let her look out the window. And he doesn’t like her friends, so nobody gets to visit her unless he is working”(Cisneros.) This specific vignettes affected me the most because I felt Sally didn’t deserve all of that. It was heartbreaking for me read about her.
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