Found in the vignette Sire, “And then his girlfriend came. Beauty, she believes, can help women escape from their current positions and offer more options. She knows that beauty doesn’t mean independence and therefore looks for other ways to gain power. Esperanza notices how important beauty is in her society and the power it holds however, she compares her intelligence instead. She can’t come out – gotta babysit with Louie’s sisters”. She lives with Louie’s family her own family is in Puerto Rico.
Found in the vignette Louie, His Cousin, & His Other Cousin, “Louie’s girl cousin is older than us. Esperanza’s neighbor is shown as the caretaker of the children while also being beautiful, which was a common role of women. According to the vignette Hairs, “But my mother’s hair, my mother’s hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls all day, sweet to put your nose into when she is holding you, holding you and you feel safe, is the warm smell of bread before you bake it, is the smell when she makes room for you on her side of the bed still warm with her skin, and you sleep near her, the rain outside falling and Papa snoring”.
Her mother is a stereotypical image of what women were like during this time women were nurturing, feminine, and domesticated. Women were often portrayed in a certain way throughout the course of this novel.
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