SANDRA CISNEROS

Only Daughter

Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros

Introduction

Sandra Cisneros's “Only Daughter” is a short story about a girl who is the only girl among her six siblings. This is an autobiography of Sandra narrated by her, she starts with the account of her childhood and how the daughter unacknowledged next to her brothers who not at all play with her. Sandra's father calls her as one of his seven sons “siete ninos”, and even when he converse in English he never bother to correct the wrong translation of this Spanish phrase. In the book, the daughter puts across her longing, to go ...