However, you can look at it and say that the parents lied to them, about the big beautiful house with basement and yard without fence, while 'in reality they can only afford a small, rundown house on Mango Street. This is a very sad side of the story, when you wanted to cheer up your children and ended up shattering their hope and dream of a better home. Besides the three of the six characters introduced, the other members of the family have only been mentioned twice, and that's all we know about them, just their names. Oh wait, there was one more character in the story, a villain