In “The House On Mango Street” Sandra Cisneros shows the difference in age between Nenny and the rest of the girls in the vignette ‘And Some More’. When Esperanza, Rachel, and Lucy are naming the clouds and then they begin to argue she continues to name the clouds.

For example,

“There’s that wide puffy cloud that looks like your face when you wake up after falling asleep with all your clothes on./ Reynaldo, Angelo, Albert, Armando, Mario…/ Not my face. Looks like your fat face./ Rita, Margie, Ernie…” (Cisneros 36)

This little chatter between the girls and then Nenny’s unknowing chatter shows that she is a little girl and she doesn’t understand what is going on. The characterization of Nenny during this excerpt shows that she wants to be a big girl, but still has the little girl one-track-mind. She isn’t old enough to realize what is going on in the conversations the older girls have.

Also in the vignette ‘Hips’ Nenny attempts to be like one of the big girls by making up her own jump-rope chant, but doesn’t understand what theirs are about. “Engine, engine number nine,/ running down Chicago line./ If the train runs off the track/ do you want your money back?” (52).  While the other three girls are talking about wanting hips and making up rhymes to suit that fancy, she goes on to chant a rhyme that “children” would say.  Nenny is characterized through these vignettes as a little girl just trying to fit in with the older girls.