In Sandra Cisneros’s “The House on Mango Street,” Esperanza’s descriptions of imagined houses illustrate that home should provide a place of freedom. Freedom of privacy to explore who she is and freedom of mobility to move throughout the world as a young woman. Esperanza explains that her ideal home would, “…have a basement… and three washrooms so when we took a bath we wouldn’t have to tell everybody” (Cisneros 4). The basement in this moment represents a desire for excess space to feel free to move and explore who she is. The three washrooms represent a desire to have freedom from the confines of her large family. The insertion of these rooms into her imagined home, are wishes for a life in which she doesn’t need permission to explore her
