Stillman, the author of Introduction to Myth, listed out certain characteristics he found in heroes. ... In the House on Mango Street, it is perhaps Esperanza's imaginative intelligence that makes her question the traditional path to womanhood She feels that courtship and early marriage will eventually lead to her entrapment. ... In House on Mango Street, where Esperanza is told to wait by the "Red Clowns," she does so and is sexually assaulted. ... Furthermore, the two characters also opposes that a hero is not a fixed member of the community and therefore had a freedom of movement most ...

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