In the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, she uses symbolism in the short story The Family of Little Feet. The symbolism is directed towards Esperanza’s interest in feet and shoes that expresses her want to get far away from Mango Street. Just in the first couple sentences she begins looking at the fact that “Their arms were little, and their hands were little, and their height was not tall, and their feet very small” (Cisneros 39) portraying that she already has an interest with feet and their purpose within a family, hence the name The Family of Little Feet. It’s an example of symbolism because the readers can see the bridge from feet and shoes to Esperanza’s want to get away from Mango Street and all the people and things that come with it. Rachel, Lucy, and Esperanza receive shoes from the mother with “feet, plump and polite, descended like white pigeons from the sea of pillow, across the linoleum roses, down down the wooden stairs, over the chalk hopscotch stairs, 5, 6, 7, blue sky” (40). Esperanza enjoys the attention she obtains from these heels, as does Rachel and Lucy, which shows that sometimes she has fun living on Mango Street. “We must be Christmas” (40) portrays that Esperanza and her friends see these shoes on their feet as an upside to life here.Therefore, this symbolism shows that even though Esperanza’s obsession with feet ultimately tell of her desire to leave Mango Street, that somethings make living here nice, which is part of the theme of entrapment.