"The fact is, that women are in chains, and their servitude is all more debasing because they do not realize it." Sandra Cisnieros depicts women as slaves in society who are ruled by an iron fist of males in The House on Mango Street. She reveals the horror and pain and suffering women must go through in their everyday life. The House on Mango Street brings forth circumstances where women have been sought as possessions, and also become subject to oppression by the fanaticism of males in today's society.
Women find themselves being treated as if they were only a multi-function robot and only as a mere possession for men. For example, in the vignette "Alicia Who Sees Mi
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