In “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros, Esperansa travels through a new stage of responsibilities that she would later regret. This process is shown through her outstanding use of symbolism. Esperansa begins to learn more about her body as she begins to mature into a young lady with hips. For example,”one day you wake up and they are there. Ready and waiting like a new Buick with the keys in the ignition (Cisneros 49).” This portrays how important hips are for women, once they appear they are ready to take control of the women’s body in order to get a man that can support her and such. The kids also begin to talk about the perks of the big hips. In addition,”what I’m saying is who here is ready? You gotta be able to know what to do with hips when you get them, I say making it up as I go. You gotta know how to walk with hips, practice you know—like if half of you wanted to go one way and the other half the other (50).” This explains how women these days need to learn how to use there hips in order to get what they want. Also it shows how women need to be practicing in order to get better at what ever they do with their hips. Overall Cisneros uses symbolism in order to express how important hips are for a women not only to show growth, but also in order to get a man.