Esperanza envisions her own dream home. It is not an apartment or flat, or a home that looks like her father's or any man's. It will have a porch and petunias, and a place to put her books and stories. "Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem" (Cisneros 132).
Esperanza begins to have concrete fantasies about her future homes. As opposed to the early chapters of her.....
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