Cathy, Queen of Cats

Here we have a personal reflection on Sandra Cisneros's Hispanic-coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street, which came to me through a peer review. The student finds the character Cathy Queen of Cats most intriguing, remarking that perhaps she keeps so many pets so that "she can psychologically use them as friends because she has no others." In a moment of stark introspection, David reveals, "I can relate to Cathy's personallity [sic] because I know someone very much like her that I dislike." Maybe the teacher was impressed at his forthrightness; certainly the peer reviewer was not.