Sally has married a young man in order to get away from her father. Now, Esperanza says in "Linoleum Roses," Sally has a house and furniture, but her husband gets violently angry some days, and he doesn't want her to see her friends, so they must go to see her while he is working. Most of the time, Sally stays in her new home and looks at the things that she and her husband own.
In "The Three Sisters," Lucy and Rachel's baby sister has died, and the family is having a traditional viewing and reception at home. Esperanza is nervous, but three old ladies are there and they reassure her. The three sisters look her over, tell her she is special, and tell her to make a wish. She does so, silently, and they say it will come true; then, as if they can read her mind, they tell her not to forget to come back to Mango Street.
Esperanza and Alicia are sitting on Edna's steps, talking. Esperanza says she wishes she were from somewhere other than Mango Street and the red house; Alicia tells her that she is, however, from Mango Street and that she will carry it with her and someday come back to it. In "A House of My Own," Esperanza tells us that someday she will live alone in a clean, quiet house with everything just as she wants it. And in the last chapter, Esperanza says that she likes to tell stories, that she belongs and does not belong in the house on Mango Street, and that sometimes writing the stories helps. She will go away someday, she says, but will come back for those who could not leave.
