Marin Character Analysis in The House on Mango Street

An older Puerto Rican girl who lives with her cousins on Mango Street. Marin sells Avon makeup and spends most of her days baby-sitting, and so cannot leave the house. She dreams of both marrying her boyfriend in Puerto Rico and being swept away by a rich man in Chicago.

Marin Quotes in The House on Mango Street

The The House on Mango Street quotes below are all either spoken by Marin or refer to Marin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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And since Marin’s skirts are shorter and since her eyes are pretty, and since Marin is already older than us in many ways, the boys who do pass by say stupid things like I am in love with those two green apples you call eyes… And Marin just looks at them without blinking and is not afraid.

Marin, under the streetlight, dancing by herself, is singing the same song somewhere. I know. Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life.

Related Characters: (speaker),

Page Number and Citation: 27

Explanation and Analysis:

Marin Quotes in The House on Mango Street

The The House on Mango Street quotes below are all either spoken by Marin or refer to Marin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

).

And since Marin’s skirts are shorter and since her eyes are pretty, and since Marin is already older than us in many ways, the boys who do pass by say stupid things like I am in love with those two green apples you call eyes… And Marin just looks at them without blinking and is not afraid.

Marin, under the streetlight, dancing by herself, is singing the same song somewhere. I know. Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life.

Related Characters: (speaker),

Page Number and Citation: 27

Explanation and Analysis:

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Marin Character Analysis

Marin Quotes in The House on Mango Street

Marin Quotes in The House on Mango Street

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