In all three of the Vignettes, Esperanza seems to have struggled with self definition or identity. In “My Name,” Esperanza says her great grandmother was a “wild horse of a woman” who didn’t want to marry but was forced into it (Cisneros ). She then goes on to comparing her name with the number nine as if the number is unlucky. This proves that she doesn’t want to end up like her great grandmother, but she does know that one day, no matter how strong she is, the same thing will happen to her too. She surely doesn’t like her name and she think it’s unlucky, comparing it the the number 9. This also proves the loss of self identity because she doesn’t like the first thing about her identity which is her name. In the first first vignette,
