The Symbolic Significance of "Names"

The symbolic significance of names in the book "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros has a very strong and powerful meaning that in most cases isn't noticed by the reader. Compared to the most popular and noticed symbols Sandra has written, the symbolic of names is much more meaningful in my opinion. In the book, the narrator Esperanza. expresses how her name had such a significance and how it resembled a wild, free and loose horse girl. However, just like her grandmother had been spirit broken and forced into marriage looking through a window all her life Esperanza had felt like her name shifted a negative meaning rather than show its true colors.
In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing." ( My Name" pg.10)
This is the solid proof of how much Esperanza down shifts her name. Comparing her name to Spanish negative meanings and relation terms. She even describes her name as a song sobbing song that her father plays on the radio, giving it a despicable taste. Not signifying what her name truly means it and not describing it as it should be; Sandra takes the significance and symbolism from Esperanza's name, removing any attention from the readers.

Comparing Sandra's express of the symbolism of Clouds/sky, Rats, Bicycles, The color blue, The colors red/pink, Trees, Falling, and many others to the symbolism of Names. I noticed how every symbolism (especially windows and feet) is expressed and spread in noticeably spots throughout the whole book.It was my great-grandmother's name and now it is mine. She was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse which is suppose to be bad luck if you're born female...... My great-grandmother. I would've like to have known her, a wild of horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn't marry. Until my great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off..... And the story goes she never forgave him. She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on a window. ( "My Name" pg.10-11)
Here is even a different meaning of what names means in terms of book significance. However, in this case the name is the first given its more about the last name which in many cases relates to identification.

And he was just someone she danced with. Somebody she met that night. That's right......That's the story. That's what she said again and again. Once to the hospital people and twice to the police. No address. No name. Nothing in his pockets. Ain't it a shame. ( "Geraldo No Last Name" pg.65)

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