The House on Mango Street
Characters in The House on Mango Street
10 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Esperanza Cordero
The narrator, a young Mexican American girl on Mango Street who wants a house of her own and finds her voice through writing.
Supporting characters
Nenny Cordero
Magdalena, called Nenny, Esperanza's youngest sister, whom she has to look after and who is still very much a child.
Lucy Guerrero
A girl from Texas who lives across the street and becomes one of Esperanza's first friends on Mango Street.
Rachel Guerrero
Lucy's younger sister and Esperanza's other close friend, who does most of the talking for the two of them.
Sally (The House on Mango Street)
An older girl Esperanza befriends and admires, who seems glamorous and grown-up but lives under a strict, violent father.
Marin (The House on Mango Street)
An older girl from Puerto Rico who lives with her cousins, babysits all day, and waits for someone to come and change her life.
Alicia (The House on Mango Street)
A young woman who runs her family's household after her mother's death and takes university classes to make a different life.
Aunt Lupe (The House on Mango Street)
Esperanza's aunt Guadalupe, once a swimmer and now bedridden by illness, the first person to encourage Esperanza's writing.
Minerva (The House on Mango Street)
A young mother only a little older than Esperanza who writes poems on scraps of paper and shares them with her.
Minor characters
Elenita (The House on Mango Street)
A neighborhood "witch woman" who reads Esperanza's cards and tells her fortune.