The protagonist of the mango street cabin.

Espe Lanza, the protagonist of 44 independent short stories in The House on Mango Street, is a "little girl" living in Mango Street, a Latin American immigrant community in Chicago. Espe Lanza's sister is called Renee, and Espe Lanza shoulders the responsibility of taking care of her sister. At home, Espe Lanza became a beautiful traditional woman in the eyes of men in a patriarchal society.

By observing the life of her family, the life of her neighbors and the cruel marriage of girls under the patriarchal ideology, Espe Langsha reached her own conclusion: only by not living like a "mother" and other girls can she embark on the road of freedom and liberation through self-rescue and writing. The growth of Espe Langsha is a process of self-awareness awakening and construction. Espe Langsha began to pursue her self-worth through her understanding of racial differences and discrimination against women. She left Mango Street in order to return to Mango Street in the future and bring the consciousness of self-realization to those who stayed in Mango Street and suffered racial discrimination.

Espe Lanza understands that it is unstable to rely on men. Men will only become "masters" rather than friends who enslave women. If women want to realize themselves, they can only get rid of men and rely on themselves. When Espe Lanza was comforted by her mother that she would become more and more beautiful, she retorted, "I decided not to be as docile as others when I grow up, and put my neck on the threshold and wait for the sweet cangue chain." Espe Lanza's understanding of gender is the second step for her to resist the patriarchal society.

Alysia

Alicia lived under her father's majesty since childhood and played the role of a housewife. In Alicia's father's view, a woman only needs to do her female role: take care of her home, clean it up, and then go to bed. There should be no redundant ideas, even the mice at home are just imagination. All imaginations are wrong, and women are right only when they sleep and close their eyes.

Alicia is a clever girl. Because her mother died prematurely, she assumed the role of "mother" or "wife" and made tortillas with a lunch box every morning. Alicia is an awakened "new woman". In order not to spend her life behind a rolling pin (representing the responsibility of traditional women), she studied all night and entered the university. In her father's eyes, everything is wrong. Alicia is afraid of her father. In her eyes, her father is like those furry four-legged mice, manipulating her everywhere. The text not only reflects alicia's fear and efforts, but also reflects Espe Langsha's admiration for alicia and his dissatisfaction and resistance to the patriarchal society. At the same time, alysia is a microcosm of Espe Langsha.

"Great-grandmother"-Espe Langsha Sr.

Espe Lanza was the name of Espe Lanza's great-grandmother. Old Espe Lanza is a woman like a horse: strong, stubborn and wild. Although she didn't want to get married, she was taken away by her great-grandfather, who put a sack on her head. The life of "great-grandmother" well explains the meaning of "Espe Lanza" in Spanish (waiting, sadness). Great-grandmother "stared out of the window all her life, staring like many women, with sad elbows." Great-grandmother was enslaved by a patriarchal society.