Cisneros went to college and majored in English, something her father considered "silly," and her father's main purpose in further her to get an education was because college was "good for finding a keep up" (p. 142). While her brothers always seemed to gain her father's favor, becoming doctors and marrying and having children, Cisneros was practically excluded from her family because of her sexual urge and her inability to live up to their rigidly defined roles for women.
Eventually, Cisneros returns bag for a visit, after experiencing some success as a writer. Her triumphs included winning two National Endowment for the arts scholarships; becoming a guest professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and issue a book. Her father is recuperating from a heart
attack when she arrives home. She offers him a story she has published that has been translated into Spanish. To her amazement, her father turns of the TV set, reads her story, "laughed in all the right places," and asks her if he can memorize more copies for family members when he is finished, (Cisneros, p. 144).
As Cisneros maintains, of all the good things that happened to her in the year preceding her trip home, that moment was "the most extraordinary" (p. 145).
Cisneros, S. Only Daughter. pp. 142-145.
In conclusion, Only Daughter contains many elements of Cisneros' demeanor and upbringing that I recognize as part of my suffer life, particularly the narrowly defined roles for women and cultural expectations of marriage, family, and gender. However, while practice the story I realized that despite such limitations or lack of encouragement to achieve outside these expectations, like Cisneros, I actually achieved more because of them. This is because, like Cisneros, the lack of approval from my father and the lack of encouragement to succeed outside th
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