House on Mango Street

Who is Esperanza talking about in the following passage?

“…but I have decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain.”

From "Beautiful and Cruel"

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Esperanza says that she does want to be like other women pressured to get married. She does not want to live a life of quiet desperation dependant on a man that she doesn't even love.

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