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Women’s Escape into Misery Women’s need for male support and their husband’s constant degradation of them was a recurring theme in the book . Many of Esperanza’s stories were about women’s dreams of marrying, the perfect husband and having the perfect fa ....

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.... decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain" (88). **Especially after seeing that Sally was suffering so much. Sally’s father is making her want to leave home by beating her. Sally "said her mother rubs lard on the places were it hurts" (93). There is not enough lard in the world to be able to cure the pain within Sally’s heart. Sally, "met a marshmallow salesman at a school bazaar" (101). Pretty soon " sally got married, she has her house now, her pillowcases and her plates" (101). Her marriage seems to free her from her father, but in reali ....