Sandra Cisneros, "Only daughter"

Being the only daughter of seven children, she keeps on stating the same thing over and over again but with different lines. Being the only daughter, the only thing on her father mind was her becoming someone wife. Cisneros stated, in the fifth grade she would shared her plans with her father about college. Hoping that she can get closer to him, seven years later, with no husband. Her father felt like he wasted all that education. Tug my father sleeve and whisper "Not seven sons, and one daughter". She wants to tell her father that I'm in no different from her brothers. 

At the end of the story, Cisneros, return to her home were she spent Christmas there. As for her story it was translated into Spanish, at that moment, "He read the line very slowly. As he was reading line over and over" (499). He was finally able to know how her daughter felt all those time. "Where can we get more copies of this for the relatives" (499). Being hated by her father for a long time, she came to realize, he always care about the kids. Just he never really mention it. "Why would anyone go to college and then choose to be poor, especially someone who had always been poor" (498). 

Her father only wants Cisneros, to find a husband during her college years, that why, he spent her there. After, knowing she wasted her college life, not able to find a husband. He consider that he wasted all that education. However, toward the end of the story, her father stated, "he fulfilled my father dream that we study hard and use our head instead of this- our hands" (498). Looking at his father hands thick and yellow- the history of hammer and nails. I didn't go to college to be poor. Especially someone who had always been poor.