Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros

Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros

Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros

Father's Expectations from his Daughter

In Sandra Cisneros' Only Daughter, the scribe provides us with an account of the isolation and efforts to win her father's approval in a working-class family of nine, encompassing six male siblings and one daughter. As Cisneros composes, "I was/am the only daughter and only a female child" (p. 142). This line is important to my life and Cisneros', because I am Hispanic like Cisneros and in my family, as well as hers, males were favored. Not only were males highly rated, but females ...