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What year did the House On Mango Street take place?

• I mean the actual story, not when it was published or anything

• Answer:

  The 1960s. The setting is central to The House on Mango Street – after all, it's even mentioned in the title. Esperanza and her family have just moved to a poor, mostly Latino neighborhood in a city that's commonly understood to be Chicago, the author's hometown. A few contextual clues, like the car Louie steals and the song Marin is constantly singing to herself, probably establish the time period as the late 1960s. http://www.shmoop.com/house-on-mango-street/setting.html These are the allusions that the author invokes. Whilst the exact date is not given, these should give a clue. http://www.shmoop.com/house-on-mango-street/allusions.html