Christopher Hollovary

The chapter that I am doing is Girl's Furniture Bought and Sold. This chapter was very odd and I really don't get the meaning of why it was put in this book. In this chapter we see Esperanza and Nenny go to this junk store were they bought a used refrigerator from here once. The man who owns this store is a black man who has tons of refrigerators and T.V's everywhere. But there was this one item the Nenny saw and asked the man what it was. He said it was a music box and Ezperanza was dissapointed by it at first because she thought it was a pretty box, which would have a ballerina and flowers but it dident. But when he played it Esperanza was very suprised by it and she was amazed by the sound it made. On page 20 she desribed it as "he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture". Esperanza really liked it but she dident want to seem intersted because she thought it would make her look stupid unlike her sister who really liked it and wanted to buy it but the man said it wasent for sale.

Now what I dont get is why did Esperanza think it would make her look stupid? Dose she really care that much on what people think? i am a win